Definition of Lochia

1. Noun. Substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth.


Definition of Lochia

1. n. pl. The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

Definition of Lochia

1. Noun. Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth. ¹

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Definition of Lochia

1. a vaginal discharge following childbirth [n LOCHIA] : LOCHIAL [adj]

Medical Definition of Lochia

1. The vaginal discharge that takes place during the first week or two after childbirth. Origin: Gr. Lochia This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lochia

locatively
locatives
locator
locator map
locators
locavore
locavores
locellate
loch
lochage
lochages
lochan
lochans
loche
lochea
lochia alba
lochia cruenta
lochia purulenta
lochia serosa
lochial
lochiometra
lochiometritis
lochioperitonitis
lochiorrhagia
lochiorrhoea
lochs
lochside

Literary usage of Lochia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"The reaction of the lochia is at first neutral, then feebly acid ; during ... The lochia of healthy women contain neither pus cells nor microorganisms. ..."

2. A Compendious system of midwifery: Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the by William Dewees (1853)
"lochia, Excessive. 584. As this discharge sometimes injures by its excess, and as that excess must necessarily result from a want of duo contraction in the ..."

3. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"THE lochia. The lochia during the first clay following parturition are red in color—the lochia rubra—and emit the characteristic sanguineous odor. ..."

4. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"The Quantity of the lochia.—Hippocrates estimated the amount of the lochia to ... These conditions are attended with increase of the lochia: Primiparity; ..."

5. A Theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery: Including the Diseases of by Pierre Cazeaux, Étienne Tarnier, William R. Bullock (1868)
"The secretion of milk soon commences, and then the flow of the lochia Ls either ... It usually disappears altogether about the eighth day ; the lochia being ..."

6. Practical manual of obstetrics by Eugène Verrier (1884)
"lochia have been called bloody, serous, or purulent, according to their ... Toward the third or fourth week the lochia gradually diminish ; and from the ..."

7. The Concordance Repertory of the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia by William Daniel Gentry (1890)
"lochia s., with sensation as if head would burst. Bry. lochia s., with violent fever. ... After parturition terrible pains, with total s. of lochia. ..."

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