On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 19:14:35 +0900, James Kilfiger
<mapdn@csv.warwick.ac.uk> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Can someone tell me what "Braxton-Hicks contraction" is in Japanese?
>
>Steadman just gives katakana, and my wife's doctor doesn't know that 
>term. Could it be おなかの張り? This term seems to be used quite 
>frequently (but the advice for 張り is the opposite to Braxton Hicks.)
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>James Kilfiger.

前駆陣痛 (zenku jintsuu) perhaps?




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