(n.) A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.
(n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.
(n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.
(n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
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.
Trousers
Definition:
(n. pl.) A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(3) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
(4) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(5) Anti-shock trousers should be widely used in cases of multiple trauma.
(6) One company, Ekso, makes robotic trousers that make it easier to carry a backpack.
(7) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(8) Shapiro, 50, said: "I always think of Steve Bell [of the Guardian] and his cartoons of John Major wearing his underpants outside his trousers.
(9) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(10) For 20 healthy volunteers the mean carotid sinus diameter was 5.7 mm supine, 6.1 mm in the Trendelenberg position, 6.5 mm after supine medical antishock trousers (MAST) inflation, 7.0 mm after MAST inflation in the Trendelenberg position, and 7.3 mm during a headstand.
(11) When the ice-cold water crept up the hollow of my neck, when my boots and trousers became as heavy as lead, it wasn't so bad that it stopped me from keeping up with the others.
(12) When I was little, I was a really girly girl who didn't like to wear trousers.
(13) It gives the impression of being all mouth and trousers.
(14) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(15) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(16) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
(17) Costs range from £50 to hire a one-button dinner jacket and trousers or £129 for a "prom package" of slim-fit suit plus shirt and tie.
(18) Then we cast a covert look at who else likes this new music, who else is at these gigs and what trousers they’re wearing… and we’re no longer sure we’re part of this gang.
(19) At Virgin Atlantic, trousers on women are rarely seen, although a spokeswoman said they could be provided for medical or religious requirements, with requests reviewed on a case by case basis.
(20) If your finest achievement is taking us to war, moving the party to the technocratic centre and coming to blows over what trousers Tony Blair should wear, then God help us.