BRAXTON-HICKS CONTRACTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency
   Synonym(s)
   • false labor (what does false labor mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Braxton-Hicks contraction is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • contraction (what does contraction mean?)
   • muscular contraction (what does muscular contraction mean?)
   • muscle contraction (what does muscle contraction mean?)