dystocia

名词 n.
/dɪsˈtəʊʃə/    /dɪsˈtoʊʃə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A slow or difficult labour or delivery. countable,uncountable
    — In macaques, baboons and chimpanzees, dystocia because of breech birth is the commonest category of fetal death.[…]Breech dystocia is rarely a problem for mother or neonates in small, multitocus species like marmosets and tamarins.

词形变化

dystocias plural

词源

From Ancient Greek δυστοκία (dustokía, “difficult childbirth”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”), from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”).
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