Definition of Lochial

1. a. Of or pertaining to the lochia.

Definition of Lochial

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the lochia. ¹

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Definition of Lochial

1. lochia [adj] - See also: lochia

Medical Definition of Lochial

1. Relating to the lochia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lochial

locellate
loch
lochage
lochages
lochan
lochans
loche
lochea
lochia alba
lochia cruenta
lochia purulenta
lochia serosa
lochial (current term)
lochiometra
lochiometritis
lochioperitonitis
lochiorrhagia
lochiorrhoea
lochs
lochside
loci
lock
lock, stock and barrel
lock-and-key model
lock-gate
lock-in
lock-ins

Literary usage of Lochial

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

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"... lochial discharge. I am encouraged to present this subject to your notice by the assurance that certain views generally accepted by the profession as to ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"FETOR OF THE lochial DISCHARGES. Box ALL (Practitioner, No. ... to determine the relationship existing between fetor in the lochial discharges and septic ..."

3. Manual of obstetrics by Edward Parker Davis (1914)
"The lochial discharge is sometimes called the bloody, serous and mucous lochia. ... The color of the lochial discharge and its character may be greatly ..."

4. The London Medical Gazette (1834)
"any lochial discharge; and the after- pains not at all severe. ... There has been no lochial secretion, and only a scanty discharge of high-coloured urine. ..."

5. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine by Joseph Laurie (1848)
"IRREGULARITIES OF THE lochial DISCHARGE. ACONITE ^{p, may be had recourse to in all instances where considerable fever is present, or administered ..."

6. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"The lochial discharge is at first coloured with blood, but afterwards becomes brown or green (green waters). After a week the lochia may be absent. (8. ..."

7. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1879)
"DK HUGH MILLER ON THE lochial DISCHARGE. .1 and by the quantity of the normal menstrual flow. We found di discharge less when a flooding had occurred. ..."

8. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"Milk suddenly disappeared from the breasts ; the scanty lochial discharge ... Thin and offensive lochial discharge, lasting too long and nearly exhausting ..."

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