PAINS
\pˈe͡ɪnz], \pˈeɪnz], \p_ˈeɪ_n_z]\
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The uneasy sensations that accompany labour, and are owing to uterine contraction. The pains that precede actual delivery, and are simply employed in dilating the es uteri, are called grinding; those which extrude the child, forcing. Those which take place in the first days after delivery, and are employed in forcing away coagula, &c., are termed After pains, Dolores seu Tormina post partum, D. puerperarum, (F.) Tranchees uterines. "To take a pain," - "To try a pain," - is to make an examination per vaginam, during labour, to discover its progress, character, &c. The French term the pains, which precede and announce labour, mouches; those which accompany it, douleurs; and those which occur immediately afterwards, tranchees ou coliques.
By Robley Dunglison
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