labor pains
Noun: 1. The rhythmic, cramping pains of the uterus that occur during childbirth: This term refers specifically to the recurring, intense discomfort and contractions experienced by a person as their body works to deliver a baby. It describes the primary physical sensation of the birthing process.
The term "labor pains" is used exclusively in the context of childbirth. It is a plural noun and typically refers to the collective experience of contractions during labor. * It is often used with verbs like experience, feel, have, or endure. * It can be modified by adjectives describing their intensity, such as intense, severe, mild, or false.
- The midwife reassured her that the labor pains were a normal and necessary part of the process.
- She began to feel strong labor pains early in the morning.
- The medication helped to manage the intensity of the labor pains.
- "False labor pains" or "Braxton Hicks contractions": These refer to irregular, practice contractions that can occur before true labor begins. They are typically less intense and do not lead to childbirth.
- She went to the hospital, but it was just false labor pains.
- Contractions (n): The medical term for the tightening and releasing of the uterine muscles during labor; often used interchangeably with "labor pains," though "contractions" is a more clinical term.
- Childbirth (n): The act or process of giving birth.
- Parturition (n): The formal or technical term for the act of giving birth.
- Birth pangs: A less common, slightly more literary synonym.
- Parturient pains: A formal or medical synonym.
"Labor pains" refers specifically to the physiological process of childbirth. It is not used metaphorically in standard English to describe the difficulties of starting a new project or venture (though the singular "growing pains" is used in that context). The focus is on the characteristic, recurrent spasms of pain.
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a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
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