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The Nurse Has Just Palpated a Laboring Woman's Contractions

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The nurse has just palpated a laboring woman's contractions. The uterus cannot be indented during a contraction. The nurse compares the consistency of the uterus during a contraction with that of the forehead. The intensity of these contractions would best be characterized as:


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