Noun: false labor fols ley-bur
Usage: US (elsewhere: false labour)
Usage: US (elsewhere: false labour)
- Painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency
"She experienced false labor several times before the real thing";
- Braxton-Hicks contraction, false labour [Brit, Cdn]
Type of: contraction, muscle contraction, muscular contraction
Encyclopedia: False labor