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oxytocia

[ok-si-toh-shee-uh, -shuh]

noun Medicine/Medical.

rapid childbirth.

Origin of oxytocia

< New Latin, equivalent to oxy- oxy-¹ + toc- (< Greek tókos childbirth) + -ia -ia

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Medicine definitions for oxytocia

oxytocia

[ŏk′sĭ-tō′shə]

n.

An unusually rapid childbirth.

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