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- noun medicine A naturally-occurring
prostaglandin , PGE2, with important effects inlabour (softening thecervix and causinguterine contraction ), sometimes used as anabortifacient .
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One type of synthetic prostaglandin is prostaglandin E2 or dinoprostone, which comes in a gel Prepidil that’s placed next to the cervix to speed up ripening.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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One type of synthetic prostaglandin is prostaglandin E2 or dinoprostone, which comes in a gel Prepidil that’s placed next to the cervix to speed up ripening.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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