premature labour

1. 1.

   labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

   Synonymspremature labor

   Broaderparturiency

Questions about premature labour

What does premature labour mean?

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

What is another word for premature labour?

Close synonyms include premature labor. 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 labour a common word?

premature labour 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.