afterburden

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ burden

Noun

afterburden (plural afterburdens)

1. Alternative form of afterburthen
   • 1937, Alan Frank Guttmacher -, Into this Universe: The Story of Human Birth, page 15:

     The child neither cried nor seemed to breathe, but he could be given no succour until the womb was freed of its afterburden; and all efforts were centred upon this.