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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Braxton Hicks contractions /ˌbrakstən ˈhɪks/

▶plural noun Medicine intermittent weak contractions of the uterus occurring during pregnancy.

– origin early 20th cent.: named after the English gynaecologist John Braxton Hicks.

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