WordNet
premature labor
n. labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation [syn: premature labour]
Usage examples of "premature labor".
That attempt had certainly brought on this premature labor, and Dio must have known it, but she did not reproach me, and once, when I spoke of it, she hushed me, saying, “.
Bolaji regularly, but found no warning signs of this premature labor.
Meade, who had arrived out of breath, expecting to find Melanie in premature labor at least, judging by Aunt Pitty’.
That night she went into premature labor and by dawn the baby was breeched and suffocating.
She had an aneurism during premature labor, and neither she nor the baby survived.