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cephalopelvic

cephalopelvic adjective: relating to the head (of a fetus) and the pelvis (of a mother).

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...

Origin of cephalopelvic

From cephalo- + pelvic.

Words formed from cephalopelvic

Questions about cephalopelvic

What does cephalopelvic mean?
Cephalopelvic means relating to the head (of a fetus) and the pelvis (of a mother).
What part of speech is cephalopelvic?
Cephalopelvic is an adjective.

Words near cephalopelvic in the dictionary

  1. cephalopagi
  2. cephalopagus
  3. cephalopathies
  4. cephalopathy
  5. cephalopedal
  6. cephalopelvic
  7. cephalopelvic disproportion
  8. cephalopelvimetries
  9. cephalopelvimetry
  10. cephalopharyngeal
  11. cephalophine

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