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Definition of Labor pain
1. Noun. Pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labor Pain
Literary usage of Labor pain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Value and Distribution: A Critical and Constructive Study by Herbert Joseph Davenport (1908)
"... and (2) that savings pain and labor pain are in such wise homogeneous that
labor pain and savings pain command equal remuneration per unit of pain. ..."
2. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"In a labor pain, the whole womb contracts. Let not the Student, then, ... It is
true that he will find, in a labor pain, that the contraction of the fundus ..."
3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1862)
"The practical effect, then, of labor- pain is to rouse the energies of the vascular
system, as well as those of the nervous, even when the body is under the ..."
4. The Value of Money by Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1917)
"I pass over the supposed difficulty that abstinence is, in general, suffered by
one set of minds, and labor-pain by a different set of minds, and hence, ..."
5. The Iron Man in Industry: An Outline of the Social Significances of by Arthur Pound (1922)
"Labor-pain stirs him to thought and expression ; but he may be even more distressed
by, ... Industrial labor-pain, being easily recognized for what it is, ..."
6. The Science and art of midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1882)
"Each complete excursion is termed a labor-pain. Peristaltic movements have been
... The average normal duration of a labor-pain is about one minute. ..."