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podalically

podalically adverb: by means of, or in terms of the foot, or feet collectively.

Adverb

podalically (not comparable)

  1. By means of, or in terms of the foot, or feet collectively.
    • The shoulder presentation was turned podalically. In the case of the footling the feet were kept up and the primiparous passages dilated by caoutchouc bags.1882, Oliver & Boyd, The Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society - Volume 7, The Michigan University Press, page 42
    • The Indian Vedas note midwives only delivered vertex presentations. Doctors delivered all other presentations. Bilateral footling, unilateral footling, and breech were delivered podalically.2008, Caroline Peterson • Lorena Madrigal • Wendy Nembhard • Nancy Romero-Daza • David Himmelgreen • Getchew Dagne, Psycho-Socio-Cultural Risk Factors for Breech Presentation, The South Florida...

Origin of podalically

From podalic + -ally.

Words formed from podalically

Questions about podalically

What does podalically mean?
Podalically means by means of, or in terms of the foot, or feet collectively.
What part of speech is podalically?
Podalically is an adverb.

Words near podalically in the dictionary

  1. Podaleirius
  2. podalgia
  3. podalic
  4. podalic version
  5. podalic versions
  6. podalically
  7. Podalirius
  8. podand
  9. podands
  10. Podanur
  11. Podany

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