afterburden
English
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editafterburden (plural afterburdens)
- Alternative form of afterburthen
- 1937, Alan Frank Guttmacher -, Into this Universe: The Story of Human Birth, page 15:
- The child neither cried nor seemed to breathe, but he could be given no succour until the womb was freed of its afterburden; and all efforts were centred upon this.