braxton-hicks contraction
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Painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency (synset 100371496)
is a type of: contraction, muscle contraction, muscular contraction - (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)same as: false labor
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