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cephalo-pelvic

cephalo-pelvic is the alternative spelling of cephalopelvic.

Meaning of cephalopelvic

Adjective

cephalopelvic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the head (of a fetus) and the pelvis (of a mother)
    • Responses which indicated that healthcare providers told parents something other than the main categories ( n = 29) were: lack of amniotic fluid ( n = 4), asphyxia ( n = 2), shoulder dystocia ( n = 2), stroke ( n = 2), uterine rupture ( n = 2) and one case of each of the following: fetal myocardial...2015 August 15, Jane Warland et al., “An international internet survey of the experiences of 1,714 mothers with a late stillbirth: the STARS cohort study”, in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, volume 15...

Questions about cephalo-pelvic

What is cephalo-pelvic the alternative spelling of?
Cephalo-pelvic is the alternative spelling of cephalopelvic.

Words near cephalo-pelvic in the dictionary

  1. cephalizations
  2. cephalized
  3. Cephallenia
  4. Cephallonia
  5. cephalo-
  6. cephalo-pelvic
  7. cephaloauricular
  8. cephalob
  9. cephalobid
  10. cephalobids
  11. cephalobs

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