transverse presentation

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noun Obstetrics.

presentation in which the fetus is turned with its long axis across the mouth of the uterus, at right angles to the axis of the birth canal.

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Also called crossbirth.

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We were scoring it like the Olympics: presentation, technique.
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Bogucki includes the leaflet in a Powerpoint presentation he has developed.
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Her biggest surprise, she said, was realizing how much presentation and technical points mattered.
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That may be partially because The Big Lebowski is their most nihilistic presentation.
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One of the hottest tickets at the 2014 edition of Comic-Con, the annual nerd mecca in San Diego, was the Marvel presentation.
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You were obliging enough to ask me to accept a presentation copy of your verses.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
Nor was ever a better presentation made of the essential program of socialism.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The figures, besides being outlined by the dots, were decorated all over with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
After the presentation of the Great Southern case our Bill was heard and all the opposition.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow