(n.) The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
(n.) Breeches.
(n.) The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
(n.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
(v. t.) To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
(v. t.) To cover as with breeches.
(v. t.) To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
(v. t.) To whip on the breech.
(v. t.) To fasten with breeching.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
(2) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
(3) Using chi 2 analysis, we found that failure of external version was significantly associated with obesity, descent of the breech into the pelvis, decreased fluid, and fetal back positioned posteriorly.
(4) This is a case controlled study of 385 women with breech presentation and 357 with cephalic presentation.
(5) All children with breech position were delivered vaginally and spontaneously, suggesting a pituitary insult during vaginal delivery.
(6) The simultaneous effect of type of hospital where the delivery occurred, type of breech, birthweight, and parity were examined.
(7) The duration of the first and second stages of labour; the incidence of assisted deliveries when the head presented; the proportion of breech extractions when either the first or second twin presented by the breech; the incidence of low Apgar scores; and the perinatal mortality were not significantly different in the two groups.
(8) Since the presentation was a frank breech at the end of the 39th week of pregnancy, cesarean section delivery was performed under good hemostatic control with transfusion of 7.3 x 10(11) platelets.
(9) Umbilical blood-gas status at elective cesarean section with oxygen inhalation for breech presentation (25 cases) was compared with that for vertex presentation (25 cases), so as to confirm the security of full-term breech fetuses delivered by cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.
(10) Twin delivery is often complicated by breech presentation of the second twin.
(11) A critical review of selected studies of breech delivery is presented with special attention to the statistical analysis of outcome for low birth weight and term breech delivery.
(12) Similar levels of catecholamines were seen after elective cesarean sections, whereas considerably higher levels were found after breech deliveries.
(13) Babies delivered by breech or lower segment Caesarean section (LSCS) also had significantly higher mortality than those delivered by other modes of delivery.
(14) We studied neonatal survival rates, APGAR scores, and length of hospital stay in 199 singleton breeches weighing 1000-2500 grams at birth.
(15) The question whether the termination of a breech pregnancy by a programmed breech delivery would reduce the fetal risk was investigated.
(16) Oxygen extraction in the breech (Mean: 49.0%) was higher than that in the vertex (32.9%).
(17) In each case the fetal weight and smallest pelvimetry data were given score points and the sum of these was called the Feto Pelvic Breech Index, which was correlated to the incidence of complicated labour.
(18) A prospective study included 106 females and their newborns, 45 of them born in breech presentation and 61 delivered normally.
(19) But this way had lead to a rise of the section frequence from 24,5% to 72,3% of all breech presentations.
(20) The frequency of congenital anomaly was also studied in 8,863 infants delivered by breech and vertex presentation.
Broach
Definition:
(n.) A spit.
(n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
(n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
(n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
(n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
(n.) A spire rising from a tower.
(n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
(n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
(n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
(n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
(n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
(n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
(n.) To open for the first time, as stores.
(n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
(n.) To cause to begin or break out.
(n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
(n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients often fear that resuming sex will be dangerous to their perceived fragile health status, while nursing staff can be reluctant to broach a subject which may cause embarrassment to both parties.
(2) Though it has a relatively small readership, with around 104,000 print and digital subscribers by the end of 2014, it retained an outsize influence for its coverage of the mainland and willingness to broach controversial topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
(3) He was also given a book on humour and religion – perhaps as a way to broach the topic lightly.
(4) The state of neuroscientific ideas and methodical possibilities on the theme is not only broached but also discussed in connection with the treatment (in the sense of an optimal coordination between brain and environment).
(5) Auerbach has disappeared before I can broach the subject, but Carney is equable.
(6) Gondry unearths long-buried resentments that he maintains could never even have been broached without the camera running.
(7) This paper focuses on a neglected aspect of combined therapy: broaching and exploring this question with one's individual patient.
(8) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
(9) In a tweet this spring, Rodman asked Kim to "do him a solid" by releasing Bae and last week he told the Huffington Post that he would broach the issue during his trip.
(10) Bone fragments left in the interosseous space and bone screws that broached the opposite part of the cortex were common findings.
(11) A TRIAD OF FACTORS CAN FAVORABLY INFLUENCE THE MAINTENANCE OF SEXUAL POTENCY AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: the surgical avoidance of cavernous neurovascular bundles, the preoperative interest of the surgeon in broaching the subject with the patient and the continued encouragement given the patient by his attending physician as to probable preservation of sexual competency following the surgical procedure.
(12) Nevertheless, the simultaneous involvement of those tissues by ethanol has not been broached in medical literature.
(13) In documentation of that fact, we have presented the case of a 50-year-old man who swallowed an endodontic broach during endodontic treatment; the instrument passed through the gastrointestinal tract without difficulty.
(14) Tooth movement was quantified from enlarged cephalograms by measuring the position of a reproducible landmark on the molar cleat with respect to either zygomatic amalgam implants or a barbed broach placed submucosally on the palate.
(15) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , broached this issue again with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, at the weekend.
(16) Newman had been accused of war crimes after broaching the subject of the Korean war with his guide.
(17) "She would never accept outside help if I tried to initiate it and I could never really broach the subject with her."
(18) A barbed broach covered by cotton fibers is used as a matrix to carry blue inlay wax into the canal prepared for a post.
(19) Is it nearer the truth to state that Cameron and Osborne only broached the subject of tax avoidance after being put under pressure to do so after excellent work by investigative journalists and Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee?
(20) Its site probably determines whether a resulting meningocele widens the intradiploic space or broaches the cranial floor.