pl. Path. Also anglicized 7 lochies, 8 loches. [mod.L., ad. Gr. λόχια, neut. pl. of λόχιος adj., pertaining to childbirth, f. λόχος a lying in. Cf. F. lochies.] The discharge from the uterus and vagina which follows childbirth.
1685. Cooke, Marrow Chirurg., Physic, III. xiv. (ed. 4), 605. If the Lochies flow duly, commit it to Nature.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lochia.
1722. Quincy, Lex. Phys.-Med., Lochia, Loches.
1747. trans. Astruc’s Fevers, 352. The evacuation we call lochia.
1789. W. Buchan, Dom. Med. (1790), 537. A suppression of the lochia, or usual discharges after delivery.
1857. Bullock, Cazeaux’ Midwif., 497. These purulent lochia.
Hence Lochial a., of or pertaining to the lochia.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Lochia, The lochial flux. Ibid. Lochial fevers.
1808. Med. Jrnl., XIX. 11. She attributed her complaints to the profuseness of the lochial discharge.
1862. N. Syd. Soc. Year-bk. Med. & Surg., 382. In eighteen cases the lochial secretion was examined from day to day.
1893. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 7 Jan., Mem. 12/2. Between the birth of the two [boys] there was no lochial discharge.
