afterpain

See also: after-pain

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ pain

Noun

afterpain (plural afterpains)

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

Translations

pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth

Scottish Gaelic: ath-thinneas-cloinne m

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