Braxton Hicks sign

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Irregular uterine contractions occurring after the third month of pregnancy.

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They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
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It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
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If he did, it could be a sign that our politicians are ready to resume genuine policy-making across party lines.
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President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
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Even then, most of us doubted he would show up and actually sign the papers allowing him to enter the 1992 New Hampshire primary.
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Its continued presence in pulmonary tuberculosis is, however, a grave prognostic sign, even when the physical signs are slight.
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Idly his pen traced upon the paper in front of him a large X, the sign of the unknown quantity.
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Here they are seldom abundant, but their constant presence is the most reliable urinary sign of the disease.
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Waxy casts are found in most advanced cases of nephritis, where they are an unfavorable sign.
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Scouts reported that Porter still occupied his camp, and showed no sign of moving.
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