afterpain

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Noun [edit]

afterpain (plural afterpains)

(pathology, often in the plural) pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth (especially after passage of the placenta)

Translations [edit]

pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth

Scottish Gaelic: ath-thinneas-cloinne (gd) m

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