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foetal dystocia (medicine)


foetal dystocia
Difficult labour and delivery caused by the foetus' size (too big), shape or position. Dystocia comes from the Greek dys meaning difficult, painful, disordered, abnormal + tokos meaning birth.


Knowles, John (sh)




born Sept. 16, 1926, Fairmont, W.Va., U.S.
died Nov. 29, 2001, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

U.S. author.

Educated at Yale University, he gained prominence for his first novel, A Separate Peace (1959), about the competitive friendship of two private-school students. Most of his novels, which include Indian Summer (1966), Spreading Fires (1974), and Peace Breaks Out (1981), are psychological examinations of characters caught in conflict between the wild and the pragmatic sides of their personalities.