breech delivery

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   delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first

   Synonymsbreech birthbreech presentation

   Broaderdelivery

   Narrowerfrank breech

Questions about breech delivery

What does breech delivery mean?

breech delivery means "delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first".

What is another word for breech delivery?

Close synonyms include breech birth, breech presentation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breech delivery a common word?

breech delivery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.