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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lochia is a noun meaning "substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth". It carries one recorded sense.
substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lochia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.