accouchement
accouchement
nounDefinition of ACCOUCHEMENT
the act or process of giving birth to children <for her second accouchement, she was attended by a more sympathetic doctor>
Related Words birth pang, contraction, pains; pregnancy; abortion, miscarriage; cesarean section (or caesarean section), natural childbirth; childbed, confinement, lying-in
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