(n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(2) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(3) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(4) Burns account for 9 per cent of the deaths occurring to women aged 15-49, and were the third cause of death (after disease of the circulatory system and complications of pregnancy and childbirth).
(5) This loss of neural regulation may result from mechanical damage to the pelvic nerves due to childbirth or pelvic surgery, exposure to environmental toxins (e.g., organochlorine insecticides or heavy metals), or possibly exposure to an infectious agent.
(6) She campaigns against deaths in childbirth and goes to Glastonbury with Naomi Campbell.
(7) Strategies for enhancing care involve using childbirth and sibling classes, modifying health care and information from primary care providers, mobilizing supportive services and resources, and influencing policies to meet maternal and family needs.
(8) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(9) Ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic energy therapies are increasingly used for perineal trauma sustained during childbirth.
(10) However, important cultural differentials exist in the medical services sought for childbirth and in the treatment of morbidity in children of different ages and sexes.
(11) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
(12) Contraceptive information is in special demand among women having abortions, women after childbirth, and youth.
(13) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
(14) A 50.8% reduction in childbirth was found in the study group, although 77% of families had decided against further high-risk pregnancies.
(15) Third, women do not attempt to assess the probabilities of particular outcomes, but instead construct mental images of anticipated events based upon past childbirth experience and expected consequences of the preferred course of action.
(16) In the case of a curable cause the childbirth should take place near a well equipped neonatology department, with a neonatal intensive care unit and surgical possibilities.
(17) A number of factors seem likely to be important in the aetiology of the condition in Milne Bay Province, including infection associated with previous childbirth and abortion.
(18) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
(19) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
(20) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
Motherwort
Definition:
(n.) A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.
(n.) The mugwort. See Mugwort.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urinary excretion of allantoin, creatine and creatinine and glucose tolerance were stimulated by motherwort.
(2) , motherwort was treated as an article of superior quality.
(3) A search in ancient Chinese medicinal literature and modern phytochemical references indicates that the therapeutic value of Leonurus artemisia (I-mu ts'ao, the Chinese motherwort) might reside in a uterotonic principle present in leaves.
(4) At the same time the effect of chinese herbs, Radix Salviae Miltorrhixae, red flower and Motherwort on CA and 5-HT of these rats was also observed.
(5) Chronic ingestion of methanol extract of the above-ground part of motherwort (Leonurus sibiricus L) in drinking water at the concentration of 0.5% enhanced the development of both pregnancy-dependent mammary tumours (PDMT) and mammary cancers originated from PDMT.
(6) The effect of motherwort (Leorunus Heterophyllus Sweet, MW) on blood hyperviscosity was investigated in 105 patients.
(7) The cause of discrepancy of the effects of motherwort on mammary cancers due to their origins is not clear at present.
(8) Since time immemorial the Chinese people have used various parts of motherwort to meet different physical needs.
(9) The changes of the monoamines were not so evident in those rats treated with Radix Salviae Miltorrhixae, red flower and motherwort even though they had also ligation of BCCA.
(10) The incidence of uterine adenomyosis was also inhibited in mice given motherwort.
(11) This article deals with the ethnobotanical aspects of the Chinese motherwort.
(12) The aqueous extracts of ledum, motherwort, celandine, black currant, cowberry and bilberry inactivated TBE virus practically completely, and those of St. John's wort, pot marigold, tansy, chamomile, milfoil, and inula only partially.
(13) Evidently, in their search for food, the ancient people found that the four nutlets contained in the dry and spinose calyx of the Chinese motherwort resemble the seasame seed in size and oil content.
(14) Studied in vivo, the extracts of motherwort, ledum, tansy and black currant induced resistance of mice to TBE virus infection assessed by the increased survival rate of the animals and significant prolongation of the average longevity.