labor pains; contractions
Medical and everyday term for the intermittent pains of childbirth.
Please contact the hospital as soon as labor pains start.
彼女は強い陣痛に耐えている。
She is enduring strong contractions.
Labor pains started in the middle of the night, and I headed to the hospital.
The contractions started coming every ten minutes.
She gritted her teeth and endured the labor pains.
The intervals between contractions kept getting shorter.
labor-inducing drug; oxytocic
labor-inducing drug; oxytocic
maternity taxi; labor taxi