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lochea

lochea is the alternative spelling of lochia.

Meaning of lochia

Noun

lochia pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.
    • In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]1822, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

Questions about lochea

What is lochea the alternative spelling of?
Lochea is the alternative spelling of lochia.

Words near lochea in the dictionary

  1. Locharbriggs
  2. Lochawe
  3. Lochay
  4. Lochcarron
  5. loche
  6. lochea
  7. Lochearnhead
  8. Lochee
  9. Locheilside
  10. Lochem
  11. Lochend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lochea (page history and authors); lochia (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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