(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.
Cannon
Definition:
(pl. ) of Cannon
(n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
(n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(n.) A kind of type. See Canon.
(n. & v.) See Carom.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(2) The authorities had said they used water cannon, teargas and smoke grenades to break up the protest.
(3) Cannon bone circumference at weaning was increased (P less than .05) by growth implants.
(4) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
(5) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(6) A protester is knocked back by a police water cannon as riot police advance towards Gezi Park.
(7) You'd have to throw him, pick him up and then fire him from a cannon.
(8) Security forces deployed teargas and water cannon against around 20,000 protesters in Izmir.
(9) You’re practically handing your personal information over to a fraudster,” says John Cannon, fraud and ID director at credit report provider Noddle.
(10) Barthez may or may not have got a touch, and the ball cannons off the bar.
(11) The coupling of ion channels to receptors by G proteins is the subject of this American Physiological Society Walter B. Cannon Memorial "Physiology in Perspective" Lecture.
(12) The Police Service of Northern Ireland has six water cannon but has told Acpo it is unable to lend them for use in England and Wales.
(13) The water cannons (mentioned at 10.53 ) are also new, Helena explains: The coalition government is keen not to be seen to be heavy-handed during the protests that will mark today's strike.
(14) Outside Sana'a University, riot police armed with water-cannons used batons and shields to disperse protesters.
(15) Walter Cannon with his concept of homeostasis and Henderson, Gamble, Peters and Van Slyke with their definition of the chemical anatomy of the organic fluids and their quantitative analysis, opened the way to Francis Moore's concept of surgery and trauma as metabolic problems.
(16) The policies have begun to infringe on the private lives of media professionals, dictating what they can and can’t say in a private capacity, outside of their work.” SBS colleagues of McIntyre said he is a “contrarian” and “a loose cannon”.
(17) Chief constables are to press the home secretary, Theresa May , to authorise the use of water cannon by any police force across England and Wales to deal with anticipated street protests.
(18) Size 75 Cannon-Manning semimicro viscometers yielded the most precise viscosity measurements.
(19) Sonic cannons are already used in the western Gulf of Mexico, off Alaska and in other offshore oil operations around the world.
(20) Presented here is a case of first degree A-V block with cannon waves.