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.

Words nearby transverse presentation

transverse muscle of chin, transverse muscle of nape, transverse muscle of tongue, transverse nerve of neck, transverse plane, transverse presentation, transverse process, transverse rhombencephalic flexure, transverse scapular artery, transverse section, transverse sinus

How to use transverse presentation in a sentence

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.
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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

Medical definitions for transverse presentation

transverse presentation

An abnormal presentation during birth, neither head nor breech, in which the fetus is positioned transversely in the uterus across the axis of the birth canal.