transverse presentation
- 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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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.
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