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BREECH PRESENTATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does breech presentation mean?
• BREECH PRESENTATION (noun)
The noun BREECH PRESENTATION has 1 sense:
1. delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first
Familiarity information: BREECH PRESENTATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
breech birth; breech delivery; breech presentation
Hypernyms ("breech presentation" is a kind of...):
delivery; obstetrical delivery (the act of delivering a child)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breech presentation"):
frank breech; frank breech delivery (position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet)
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