(n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
(n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons.
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.
Galligaskins
Definition:
(n. pl.) Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.