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PREMATURE LABOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation
Synonyms:
premature labor; premature labour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("premature labor" is a kind of...):
childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)