TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Clinical Course of Normal Labor A1 - Dy, Jessica A2 - Posner, Glenn D. A2 - Dy, Jessica A2 - Black, Amanda A2 - Jones, Griffith D. PY - 2015 T2 - Oxorn-Foote Human Labor & Birth, 6e AB - DefinitionsLABOR The physiologic process by which the products of conception (fetus, amniotic fluid, placenta, and membranes) are separated and expelled from the uterus through the vagina into the outside world. It is defined by the presence of regular uterine contractions accompanied by cervical effacement and dilatation and fetal descent.PRETERM LABOR The onset of labor in a gravid woman whose period of gestation is less than 37 completed weeks (less than 259 days) from the first day of the last menstrual period.DYSTOCIA Abnormally slow and protracted labor.EXPECTED DATE OF CONFINEMENT On an average, this is 280 days from the first day of the last menstrual period or 267 days from conception. It is calculated by going back 3 months from the first day of the last menses and adding 7 days (Naegle's rule) SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1106375959 ER -