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expulsive pains — labor pains during the second stage of labor … Medical dictionary
Anal expulsive — The term anal expulsive refers to a personality trait present in people fixated in the anal stage of psychosexual development.Sigmund Freud proposed that during the anal stage, the primary zone of pleasure shifts from the mouth to the anus. For a … Wikipedia
Anal stage — The anal stage in psychology is the term used by Sigmund Freud to describe the development during the second year of life, in which a child s pleasure and conflict centers are in the anal area. This stage is exemplified by a toddler s pleasure in … Wikipedia
Second stage of labor — The part of labor from the full dilatation of the cervix until the baby is completely out of the birth canal. The second stage of labor is also called the stage of expulsion. * * * the period during which the infant is expelled from the uterus… … Medical dictionary
bearing down — Expulsive effort of a parturient woman in the second stage of labor. * * * bear·ing down (bārґing dounґ) 1. a feeling of weight in the pelvis occurring in certain diseases. 2. the expulsive effort of a woman in labor … Medical dictionary
Anal retentive — The term anal retentive (or anally retentive , anal retentive ), commonly abbreviated to anal , is used conversationally to describe a person with such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out… … Wikipedia
Childbirth — Parturition redirects here. For the Voyager episode, see Parturition (Star Trek: Voyager). Childbirth (also called labor, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more… … Wikipedia
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
Pain — An unpleasant sensation that can range from mild, localized discomfort to agony. Pain has both physical and emotional components. The physical part of pain results from nerve stimulation. Pain may be contained to a discrete area, as in an injury … Medical dictionary
