oxytocin
oxytocin
Definition
oxy·to·cin (äk′si tō′sin, -täs′in)
oxytocin
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- call: The hormone your body makes during labor is called oxytocin.
- release: Oxytocin, for instance, is essential for parturition and lactation, and oxytocin released into the brain is important in reproductive behaviors.
- use: It is better to use oxytocin in the awake patient having a regional or local anesthetic.
- receive: For women receiving oxytocin, the odds were 0.3 - ie about 23 % .
- have: The highest risk was for women who had had prostaglandin gel ( 4.5 % ), tho most of them had also had oxytocin.
- produce: The paraventricular nuclei produce mostly oxytocin and the supraoptic mostly vasopressin although both hormones may also be produced by the other type of nuclei.
Adjective modifier
- synthetic: Induction of Labor with Syntocin ( synthetic Oxytocin ).
Modifies a noun
- augmentation: This study did however find that oxytocin augmentation significantly reduces the overall length of labor.
- receptor: In the human it seems that changes in the levels of the oxytocin receptor, rather than in oxytocin itself are important for labor.
- infusion: Women randomized to active management commenced an oxytocin infusion within 20minutes of randomisation.
- drip: Vaginal Prostin pessaries are used and this may be followed by breaking the waters, occasionally followed by an oxytocin drip.
- level: Another difference emerged when the children played with their mother - oxytocin levels rose in the control children but not in the orphans.
- induction: It compared the rates of uterine rupture associated with spontaneous labor, oxytocin induction or acceleration, and prostaglandin E2 gel induction.
Noun used with modifier
- hormone: You will also receive the hormone oxytocin to help stimulate uterine contractions.
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