false labor

1. 1.

   painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency

   SynonymsBraxton-Hicks contraction

   Broadercontraction

Questions about false labor

What does false labor mean?

false labor means "painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency".

What is another word for false labor?

Close synonyms include Braxton-Hicks contraction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is false labor a common word?

false labor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.