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Medicine
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(Medicine): TENS machine in use in labour labor on back 1 DHD.jpg
D=2005/12/13 [Dec 13, 2005]; S=3MB, 3264x2448; T=JPEG image [MIME:image/jpeg].
FREE to download and use! (c) Damon Hart-Davis
Rating: 57/100.
Key: D= file date of exhibit; S= size in bytes, XxY pixels, etc; T= type of exhibit; L= location/time or viewpoint of exhibit (if known).
- tens = TENS machine, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation = Small electrical pulses from the audio-cassette-sized TENS machine prevent pain signals from the womb and cervix from reaching your brain and also stimulate your body to release its own natural "feel-good" endorphins, easing the first half (and possibly more) of labour.
Read about using the TENS machine during Eloise's birth.
- back = back/reverse/obverse/rear/heads of an object such as a ticket or coin
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(Scenes apparently involving casualties are acted by models.)
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