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analgesia
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a medication that decreases awareness of pain
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anesthesia
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a medication that causes partial or complete loss of sensation
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doula
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a person without professional experience who guides and assists a woman in labor
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endorphins
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naturally occurring opiate-like substances in the body
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epidural anesthesia
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injection of an analgesic agent into the epidural space just outside the spinal canal, to provide analgesia to the lower body for 12 to 24 hours
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pain
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an unpleasant sensation caused by pressure injury, or tissue anoxia; it is whatever the person experiencing it says it is, and exists whenever he or she says it does
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pressure anesthesia
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a natural yet simplest form of pain relief for birth that results from the fetal head pressing against the stretched perineum
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pudendal nerve blocks
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the injection of a local anesthetic near the right and left pudendal nerves at the level of the ischial spine
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transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
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pain relief measure that achieves its effect by counterirritation on nociceptors by use of a light electric current
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