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breech
noun as in behind
noun as in bottom
noun as in rump
noun as in seat
noun as in tush
verb as in clothe
Strong matches
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.
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.
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.
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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