premature labor

1. 1.

   labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

   Synonymspremature labour

   Broaderparturiency

Questions about premature labor

What does premature labor mean?

premature labor means "labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation".

What is another word for premature labor?

Close synonyms include premature labour. 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 premature labor a common word?

premature 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.