Dystocia

Quick meaning: Dystocia is a noun meaning (medicine, veterinary medicine) A slow or difficult labour or delivery.

Meaning

(medicine, veterinary medicine) A slow or difficult labour or delivery.

Example Sentences

Although fetal dystocias are sometimes relieved by manipulation and instrumentation, cesarean sections are often the only practical methods of treatment.

In macaques, baboons and chimpanzees, dystocia because of breech birth is the commonest category of fetal death.[…]Breech dystocia is rarely a problem for mother or neonates in small, multitocus species like marmosets and tamarins.

Dystocia is defined as difficult delivery. Pelvic dystocia is due to aberrations of the pelvic architecture and its relationship to the presenting fetal part.[…]Fetal dystocia may be due to excessive fetal size from gestational diabetes or congenital anomalies.

It is an appropriate way to allow resolution of the dystocia, after clearing the airway and checking for a nuchal cord. The prevailing thinking is that the time window in which to resolve a shoulder dystocia before asphyxial insult (not injury) is about 4 minutes.

Word Forms

• dystocias

Synonyms for dystocia

Depending on context, synonyms include bradytocia.

Antonyms for dystocia

Common opposites include eutocia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shoulder, deliverance, dysphony, dretch, dilation, dyspnoea.

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