(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.
Restitution
Definition:
(v.) The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
(v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
(v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
(v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(2) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
(3) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(4) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(5) Therapeutic action included application of antibiotics, surgical valve removal, and delayed restitution.
(6) The monoexponential pattern of restitution was seen with model-independent descriptors of relaxation as well as with tau.
(7) This study suggests that restitution of amniotic fluid volume in human pregnancies complicated by severe oligohydramnios does not acutely alter the umbilical artery PI.
(8) Tetrapolar impedance rheocardiography was used to study postextrasystolic potentiation and mechanic restitution.
(9) To determine whether centrally released vasopressin influences thirst, observations of osmotic thirst threshold, osmotic load excretion and postloading restitution of plasma osmolality were made in dogs in control experiments and during infusion of AVP antagonists into the third ventricle.
(10) It was found that chromosome fragments restitute with time, whereas the dicentrics are formed very quickly and their frequency remains the same, despite the decline in the number of chromosome breaks at later recovery times.
(11) A comparative evaluation of the effects of soaps and detergents on pH behaviour and lipids level on the skin surface and duration of their restitution was carried out.
(12) [The loan is] appalling, no one had any idea whatsoever,” said Elena Korka, a senior culture ministry policymaker involved in restitution efforts since 1986.
(13) Air crescent signs were seen in 40% of patients during or after bone marrow restitution.
(14) The tissue restitution was better in suture anastomosis carried out with absorbable sutures than performed with non-absorbable suture material.
(15) It is concluded that grafting can be successfully employed in the treatment of central ulcers, as it not only restitutes tissue integrity, but also preserves useful vision.
(16) Following factors were obtained regardless whether investigations were carried out in normals or in psychiatric patients: A static factor, a dynamic factor, a stimulus-specific factor and a restitution-dependent factor.
(17) The apparent protective mechanisms of this prostanoid under the present conditions may involve mucus and fluid effusion that could allow restitution of the surface epithelial layer.
(18) The mechanical restitution of the left ventricle of closed-chest dogs was modeled as a monoexponential relation, using peak single-beat elastance as a measure of contractile strength.
(19) Transplants of 1-3 rat pancreases have proven to restitute streptozotocin induced diabetes in athymic nude mice.
(20) There was relevant hemodynamic irritation of perfusion in dopplersonographic examination cranial of compressed vessel, which normalized after restitution.