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Contraction vs Dinoprostone - What's the difference?

contraction | dinoprostone |

In medicine|lang=en terms the difference between contraction and dinoprostone

is that contraction is (medicine) a distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together while dinoprostone is (medicine) a naturally-occurring prostaglandin, pge2, with important effects in labour (softening the cervix and causing uterine contraction), sometimes used as an abortifacient.

As nouns the difference between contraction and dinoprostone

is that contraction is a reversible reduction in size while dinoprostone is (medicine) a naturally-occurring prostaglandin, pge2, with important effects in labour (softening the cervix and causing uterine contraction), sometimes used as an abortifacient.

contraction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A reversible reduction in size.
  • (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
    • The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
  • (biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
  • (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
  • (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
    • In English ''didn't'', ''that's'', and ''wanna'', the endings ''-n't'', ''-'s'', and ''-a'' arose by contraction .
  • (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
    • "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
  • (medicine) Contracting a disease.
    • The contraction of AIDS from toilet seats is extremely rare.
  • (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
  • The acquisition of something, generally negative.
    • Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
  • (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

    • Antonyms

    * expansion * dilatation

    Derived terms

    * contractional * contractionary * hypercontraction * supercontraction

    Related terms

    * contract * contractation * contractive

    See also

    * omission * *

    dinoprostone

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia dinoprostone)
  • (medicine) A naturally-occurring prostaglandin, PGE2, with important effects in labour (softening the cervix and causing uterine contraction), sometimes used as an abortifacient.