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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural The normal uterine discharge of blood, tissue, and mucus from the vagina after childbirth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Greek myth, a surname of the goddess Artemis (Diana), as the protectress of women in childbirth.
  • noun [NL.] A genus of noctuid moths of the subfamily Cosmiinæ, based upon the Australian L. apicalis.
  • In medicine, the evacuations from the womb and vagina which follow childbirth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Med.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek lokhia, from neuter pl. of lokhios, of childbirth, from lokhos, childbirth; see legh- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία, neuter plural of λοχείος ("of childbirth"), from λόχος (lokhos, "childbirth").

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