Look up: child-birth

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   childbirth
   [n] - the parturition process in human beings
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   Childbirth
   Child'birth noun The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/64
   
   
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   childbirth
   The process of labour and delivery in the birth of a child. ... See: birth, accouchement. ... Synonym: parturition. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   childbirth
   childbearing noun the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
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   Childbirth
   `Childbirth` (also called `labour`, `birth`, `partus` or `parturition`) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of human childbirth is categorized in 3 stages of labour. The first stage accomplishes the shortening and then the dilation of the cervix. It is deemed to have started when the cervix is 3 cm long, and ends with full dilation. Contrac...
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   childbirth
   (child´bәrth) the process of giving birth to a child, including both labor and delivery. Called also accouchement and parturition. cooperative childbirth , educated childbirth , natural childbirth prepared childbirth.
   Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns
   
   
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   Childbirth
   • (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
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   Childbirth
   The process of giving birth to a child, whether it be vaginally or surgically via a cesarean section.
   Found on http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/C/4
   
   
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   childbirth
   childbirth: see birth.
   Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09117