Term: induction of labor: (obstetrics) inducing the childbirth process artificially by administering oxytocin or by puncturing the amniotic sac
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: poison: anything that harms or destroys
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: archespore: primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: reveille: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: mark: the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: cuckoo: any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: fight: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: anal personality: (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: psalmist: a composer of sacred songs
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: givenness: the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
Broader: induction: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | Unrelated: flying lemur: arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps