The first stage of labour where cervical dilatation progresses less than 1 centimetre per hour for a minimum of 4 hours. Protracted descent is less than 1 centimetre per hour for nulliparas and less than 2 centimetre per hour for multiparas.
Also indexed as
Arrest of descent during first stage of labourProlonged first stage of labourlong delivery, first stagelong labour, first stageprolonged first stage of deliveryprolonged or protracted first stage of labour