Labor & Delivery

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• Labor induction — Intervention ICD 9 CM 73.0 73.1 Labor induction is a method of artificially or prematurely stimulating …   Wikipedia

• Labor history of the United States — involves the history of organized labor, as well as the more general history of working people in the United States of America. Pressures dictating the nature and power of organized labor have included the evolution and power of the corporation,… …   Wikipedia

• delivery — [n1] transfer, transmittal carting, commitment, consignment, conveyance, dispatch, distribution, drop, freighting, giving over, handing over, impartment, intrusting, mailing, parcel post, portage, post, rendition, shipment, surrender,… …   New thesaurus

• labor — [n1] work, undertaking activity, chore, daily grind, diligence, drudgery, effort, employment, endeavor, energy, exercise, exertion, grind*, gruntwork*, industry, job, moonlight*, operation, pains*, pull, push, strain, stress, struggle, sweat,… …   New thesaurus

• labor room — n a hospital room where a woman in labor stays before being taken to the delivery room * * * predelivery r …   Medical dictionary

• Labor — Childbirth, the aptly named experience of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to the outside world. There are two stages of labor. During the first stage (called the stage of dilatation), the cervix dilates fully to a… …   Medical dictionary

• delivery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. surrender; conveyance; childbirth, parturition; rescue, escape, salvation, redemption (see liberation); address (see speech). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Bringing goods into another s possession] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

• LABOR LAW — In Scripture Two fundamental principles relating to the laws of the hired servant are enjoined in the Pentateuch. Firstly, the master s duty to pay the wages of his servant on time: The wages of a laborer shall not remain with you until morning ; …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• labor — laboringly, adv. laborless, adj. /lay beuhr/, n. 1. productive activity, esp. for the sake of economic gain. 2. the body of persons engaged in such activity, esp. those working for wages. 3. this body of persons considered as a class… …   Universalium

• labor — 1. noun 1) manual labor Syn: work, hard work, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort, menial work; informal slog, grind, sweat, scut work; literary travail, moil Ant: rest, leisu …   Thesaurus of popular words

• labor — n 1. work, employment, job, occupation, living, livelihood, means of support. 2. toil, travail, sweat of one s brow, moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work or toil, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder