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lochia

NOUN
  1. substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth

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  • Member of the genus Aristolochia are also called birthworts and are occasionally encountered in herbal preparations as a remedy for various ailments as well as to ease the pain of childbirth.
  • They call it lochia, and technically it isn’t just blood, but a combination of blood, mucus, and tissue from your uterus. You’ll Lose the Baby Weight
  • The three groups of paleoherbs are Aristolochiales (birthwort, Dutchman's pipe), Piperales (pepper vine, lizard's tails), and Nymphaeales (lotus, waterlilies).
  • Aristolochia (snakeroot) - toxicological risk assessment using an biosystematic and phytochemical-analytical approach Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • Postpartum lochia not prevent the net flow of air to prevent postpartum complications postpartum pelvic varicose veins, Ms. production.
  • The lung of a long-winded fox is used as a cure for asthma, the yarrow is used to cure jaundice, agaricos is used for blisters, aristolochia (the fruit of which has the form of a uterus) is used for the pains of child-birth, and nettle-tea for nettle-rash. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
  • Regulators recently issued warnings about herbal products containing aristolochia, a banned toxic and carcinogenic plant derivative. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flow of lochia is heavy following birth, and then becomes gradually lighter, lasting up to 6 weeks.
  • In after years, however, I was enabled to classify his "charm," which was no other than the _Aristolochia serpentaria_ -- a species closely allied to the "bejuco de guaco," that alexipharmic rendered so celebrated by the pens of Mutis and Humboldt. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
  • Few insects can compare with it in beauty, as it hovers over the flowers of the heliotrope, which furnish the favourite food of the perfect fly, although the caterpillar feeds on the aristolochia and the _betel leaf_, and suspends its chrysalis from its drooping tendrils. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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