Placental dystocia

Placental dystocia
Trouble delivering the placenta (the afterbirth). Dystocia comes from the Greek "dys" meaning "difficult, painful, disordered, abnormal" + "tokos" meaning "birth."

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difficulty in delivering the placenta.

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