Example Sentences for dormant. Much water while they are dormant, gives the foliage a sickly tinge, a state in which they are too frequently seen. Her will seems to be roused there by the side of the marital will which is dormant. But for misery and suffering, I might indeed be said to have existed in a dormant state.
Lesson Summary. And that's it; the three stages of labor: 1  The dilation stage, where the cervix widens and opens to about ten cm to allow passage of the fetus, or baby. 2  The expulsion stage, where uterine contractions push the baby through the cervix and down the birth canal, ending with delivery of the baby. The dilation stage: this begins when true labor starts. 2  The expulsion stage, which ends in parturition, or the birth of the baby. 3  The placental stage, which, as you may be able to guess, is the expulsion of the placenta from the uterus.
1 The next portion of the first stage of labor is the active phase, which is the phase of the most rapid cervical dilatation. 2  For most women this is from 3 to 4 centimeters of dilatation until 8 to 9 centimeters of dilatation.abor is described in three stages, and together these stages complete the delivery and the passage of the placenta.