Dystocia Definition

noun

(medicine, veterinary medicine) A slow or difficult labour or delivery.

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Other Word Forms of Dystocia

Noun

Singular:
dystocia
Plural:
dystocias

Origin of Dystocia

  • From Ancient Greek δυστοκία (dustokia, “difficult childbirth”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόκος (tokos, “childbirth”), from τίκτω (tiktō, “I give birth”).

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Dystocia Sentence Examples

  • An infant's shoulder is too large to fit easily through the birth canal (shoulder dystocia).

  • Some physicians suggest that women whose previous children had shoulder dystocia should be offered an elective cesarean delivery.

  • Failure to progress and/or dystocia is the second most common reason for a c-section and represents about 30 percent of all cases.

  • Spent the next sixteen years in general veterinary practice being awarded the Fellowship of the RCVS for his thesis entitled Dystocia in the Sow.

  • Only small differences in dystocia were recorded between the dam genotype groups.

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