premature labor

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premature labor - labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

premature labour

childbed, confinement, lying-in, parturiency, travail, labour, labor - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

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