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breech

noun as in behind

noun as in bottom

noun as in rear end

Strongest match

noun as in seat

noun as in tush

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Example Sentences

Caesareans are seen as essential for preventing obstructed labour in cases where a woman’s pelvis is too small, the baby is in a breech position, or is too large to exit the birth canal.

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In a police report reviewed by The Times, the patient described going to a gynecologist in 2020 to have him “flip” a breech baby.

Without that, the world will breech the threshold of 1.5C that was established in the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Two days later, she was rushed to have an emergency Caesarean due to a drop in her baby's heartbeat - which showed up on a scan that also identified he was in the breech position, meaning he was lying bottom first, rather than head first.

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The post-mortem later noted that if the breech position had been recognised earlier in the pregnancy, then Rozelle would have likely been classified as a higher risk where a management plan for a hospital birth would have been arranged and the outcome may have been different.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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