Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun premature_labour

1 sense of premature labour

Sense 1
premature labor, premature labour -- (labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation)
       => parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours")