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Laboratorian
A person who works in a clinical or research laboratory (e.g., performing assays, preparing or analyzing specimens, designing protocols, or managing workflow).
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Trial of Iabor
Permitting labor to continue long enough to determine if normal vaginal birth appears to be possible (e.g., in vaginal birth after cesarean delivery).
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Spontaneous labor
Labor that begins and progresses without pharmacological, mechanical, or operative intervention.
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Prolonged latent phase labor
Abnormally slow progress of the latent phase, lasting more than 20 hr in a nullipara or 14 hr in a multipara.
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Prolonged labor
Abnormally slow progress of labor, lasting more than 20 hr.
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Prodromal labor
The initial changes that precede actual labor, usually occurring 24 to 48 hr before the onset of labor. Some women report a surge of energy. Findings include lightening, excessive mucoid vaginal discharge, softening and beginning effacement of the ripe cervix, scant bloody show associated with expulsion of the mucus plug, and diarrhea.
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Primary dysfunctional labor
Abnormally slow dilation of the cervix in the active phase of labor; defined as less than 1.2 cm/hr in a nullipara and 1.5 cm/hr in a multipara.
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Precipitate labor
Labor marked by sudden onset, rapid cervical effacement and dilation, and delivery within 3 hr of onset.
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Obstructed labor
Interference with fetal descent related to malposition, malpresentation, and cephalopelvic disproportion.
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Normal labor
Progressive dilation and effacement of the cervix with descent of the presenting part.
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