dystocia

Meaning of dystocia

noun
  1. difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
    the incidence of dystocia or difficult calvings

early 18th century: from Greek dustokia, from dus- ‘difficult’ + tokos ‘childbirth’.

Information about dystocia

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of dystocia is: dystocias.
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Hyphenation of dystocia

dys-to-cia

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • dystocia is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with dystocia

Cappadocia, Docia, Eudocia, Venedocia, socia, atocia, bradytocia, eutocia, mogitocia, oxytocia, prosopotocia, thelytocia, xerotocia

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