Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the lochia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the lochia.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
lochia .
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Examples
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The lochial discharge is a normal, healthy process.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008
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The lochial discharge is a normal, healthy process.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008
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In Thasus, the wife of Philinus, having been delivered of a daughter, the discharge being natural, and other matters going on mildly, on the fourteenth day after delivery was seized with fever, attended with rigor; was pained at first in the cardiac region of the stomach and right hypochondrium; pain in the genital organs; lochial discharge ceased.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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It is probable that the suppression of the lochial discharge caused death on the day.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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Women are subject to oedema and leucophlegmasiae; when pregnant they have difficult deliveries; their infants are large and swelled, and then during nursing they become wasted and sickly, and the lochial discharge after parturition does not proceed properly with the women.
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In Thasus, the woman who lodged near the Cold Water, on the third day after delivery of a daughter, the lochial discharge not taking place, was seized with acute fever, accompanied with rigors.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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These pads are changed every hour during the first day or two because of the profuse lochial flow.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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This toilet continues until the close of the second week or longer, if there is a lochial flow.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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The change in character of the lochial discharge is due to the quantity of blood decreasing and its place being taken by fatty granules and leucocytes.
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Diminution in the size of the uterus is responsible for the loss of nearly two pounds, and the lochial discharge for at least another; but the chief factor concerned is the removal of water from the tissues, many of which have become dropsical toward the end of pregnancy.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912
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