A medical condition in which childbirth is abnormally slow or prolonged, indicating slow labor progression.
From Greek 'bradys' (slow) + 'tokia' (childbirth, from 'tokos'). This medical term describes pathologically delayed labor, developed in obstetrics to identify difficult births.
Before modern medicine, bradytocia could be deadly for both mother and baby, which is why understanding the condition revolutionized obstetrics and dramatically improved birth outcomes in hospitals.
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