LOCHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lochia mean? 

• LOCHIA (noun)
  The noun LOCHIA has 1 sense:

1. substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth

  Familiarity information: LOCHIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lochia" is a kind of...):

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)