dystocia
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- noun
- /dɪsˈtoʊʃə/
- Specialized
- Neonatal clavicle fractures, in general, are more common for gestational age newborns (>4,500g), especially when there has been a difficult delivery or shoulder dystocia (Eiff & Hatch, 2003).
- shoulder dystocia
Examples
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The chances of a major dystocia seem pretty unlikely simply because they thought the women should be readily available to breed?
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Dystocia
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Not crash procedures involving dystocia.
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Zavanelli is a rare procedure, as you know, and is only used where a dystocia absolutely cannot be resolved.
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There aren't any reliable ways to predict or prevent shoulder dystocia.
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That's shoulder dystocia.
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In an absolutely worst-case shoulder dystocia, where every other method has been employed and a C-section is not a viable option, it could save the life of both the woman and the baby.
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From what I understand, this procedure is still used to resolve some cases of shoulder dystocia that cannot otherwise be handled (the very last ditch effort is usually breaking the kid's collarbone).
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Induction of labor at least doubles the risk of cesarean delivery without reducing shoulder dystocia (a rare situation where the baby's shoulder can get stuck at delivery) or newborn morbidity (complications).
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The veterinarian had to intervene due to a case of dystocia during the calf's delivery.
Surface Forms
Morphology
dystocia = tocia (semi-transparent) = dys + tocia
The prefix 'dys-' signals difficulty (recognisable in many medical terms), but '-tocia' is a specialist combining form meaning 'birth' and is not a standalone English word, so the structure is only partly transparent to learners.
Etymology
Dystocia comes from Greek parts: dys- meaning 'bad' or 'difficult' and -tocia from tokos meaning 'birth'. So dystocia simply means a 'difficult birth', which is why doctors and veterinarians use it for hard or abnormal labour.