different between dystocia vs dystocialdystocial

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (dustokía, “difficult childbirth”), from ???- (dus-, “bad”) + ????? (tókos, “childbirth”), from ????? (tíkt?, “I give birth”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?to???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?t????/
• Hyphenation: dys?to?cia

Noun

dystocia (countable and uncountable, plural dystocias)

1. (medicine, veterinary medicine) A slow or difficult labour or delivery.
   • 2005, James Mahoney, Primate Management: Medical Care, Sonia Wolfe-Coote (editor), The Laboratory Primate, page 256,

     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.

   • 2008, Dan Rice, The Complete Book of Dog Breeding, 2nd Edition, page 96:

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

   • 2009, James A. O?Leary, Shoulder Dystocia and Birth Injury: Prevention and Treatment, page 102:

     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.

Antonyms

• (difficult childbirth): eutocia

Derived terms

• dystocial

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