BIRTH CANAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birth canal mean? 

• BIRTH CANAL (noun)
  The noun BIRTH CANAL has 1 sense:

1. a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth

  Familiarity information: BIRTH CANAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRTH CANAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("birth canal" is a kind of...):

passage; passageway (a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass)

 Context examples 

An abnormal position assumed by the fetus in the birth canal during the childbirth process.

(Fetal Malpresentation, NCI Thesaurus)

A fetal position during delivery in which the head of the fetus is in the birth canal facing the area between the right hip and the spine of the mother.

(Left Occiput Anterior Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)

A fetal position during delivery in which the spine of the fetus is not aligned with the mother's resulting in the descent into the birth canal in an oblique position.

(Oblique Fetal Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)

A fetal position during delivery in which the face of the fetus is first to descend into the birth canal.

(Face Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)

A fetal position during delivery in which there are multiple fetal body parts that descends down the birth canal along with the main presenting part.

(Compound Fetal Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)

For the procedure, a sterile gauze pad was incubated in the mother’s birth canal an hour before the C-section.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)

During birth, the baby passes through the birth canal.

(Birth canal, NCI Dictionary)

A type of fetal presentation when the baby descends into the birth canal with hips, buttocks or its foot first during delivery.

(Breech Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of fetal presentation where the fetal spine is aligned along the longitudinal axis of the uterus and descends into the birth canal during delivery.

(Longitudinal Fetal Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)

Babies delivered via the birth canal acquire a microbial community (microbiota) that resembles that of their mother’s vagina.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)