Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the lochia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the lochia.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the lochia.

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Examples

  • The lochial discharge is a normal, healthy process.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • The lochial discharge is a normal, healthy process.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • In Thasus, the wife of Philinus, having been delivered of a daughter, the discharge being natural, and other matters going on mildly, on the fourteenth day after delivery was seized with fever, attended with rigor; was pained at first in the cardiac region of the stomach and right hypochondrium; pain in the genital organs; lochial discharge ceased.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • It is probable that the suppression of the lochial discharge caused death on the day.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • Women are subject to oedema and leucophlegmasiae; when pregnant they have difficult deliveries; their infants are large and swelled, and then during nursing they become wasted and sickly, and the lochial discharge after parturition does not proceed properly with the women.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • In Thasus, the woman who lodged near the Cold Water, on the third day after delivery of a daughter, the lochial discharge not taking place, was seized with acute fever, accompanied with rigors.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • These pads are changed every hour during the first day or two because of the profuse lochial flow.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • This toilet continues until the close of the second week or longer, if there is a lochial flow.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • The change in character of the lochial discharge is due to the quantity of blood decreasing and its place being taken by fatty granules and leucocytes.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • Diminution in the size of the uterus is responsible for the loss of nearly two pounds, and the lochial discharge for at least another; but the chief factor concerned is the removal of water from the tissues, many of which have become dropsical toward the end of pregnancy.

    The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912

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