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- induced labor
- the process of medicinally speeding the delivery of a child, typically via the administration of highly concentrated synthetic oxytocin which artificially, and with tremendously increased pain for the mother, brings rapid onset of labor; recent studies indicate a nearly 1:1 correlation between the frequency of induced labor and Obstetrics department scheduling conflicts with reservations at the Links.