premature labour

Other forms: premature labours

Definitions of premature labour
  1. noun
    labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation
    synonyms: premature labor
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    type of:
    childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail
    concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
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