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dystocias

dystocias is the plural of dystocia.

Meaning of dystocia

Noun

dystocia (countable and uncountable, plural dystocias)

  1. A slow or difficult labour or delivery.
    • 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.2005, James Mahoney, “Primate Management: Medical Care”, in Sonia Wolfe-Coote, editor, The Laboratory Primate, page 256
    Synonyms:
    bradytocia
    Antonyms:
    eutocia

Questions about dystocias

What is dystocias the plural of?
Dystocias is the plural of dystocia.

Words near dystocias in the dictionary

  1. dysthyroidic
  2. dysthyroidism
  3. dysthyroidisms
  4. dystocia
  5. dystocial
  6. dystocias
  7. dystocic
  8. dystomer
  9. dystomers
  10. dystomic
  11. dystomous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dystocias (page history and authors); dystocia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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