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LYING-IN
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Irregular inflected form: lyings-in
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
Example:
she was in labor for six hours
Synonyms:
childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("lying-in" is a kind of...):
birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition (the process of giving birth)
Meronyms (parts of "lying-in"):
uterine contraction (a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal)
effacement (shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor)
asynclitism; obliquity (the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lying-in"):
premature labor; premature labour (labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation)
Holonyms ("lying-in" is a part of...):
gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)
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