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Definition of Frank breech
1. Noun. Position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet.
Generic synonyms: Breech Birth, Breech Delivery, Breech Presentation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frank Breech
Literary usage of Frank breech
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Obstetrics: A Practical Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Edwin Bradford Cragin, George Hope Ryder (1916)
"Breech Presentation with Extended Legs or a "frank breech." — This condition has
already been described in the chapter on Mechanism of Labor (page 247) (see ..."
2. Obstetrics: A Text-book for the Use of Students and Practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1912)
"Indeed, it is not until one has attempted a difficult frank breech extraction
that one learns how little fore« can be exerted by the fingers. Prognosis. ..."
3. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1916)
"A simple breech is sometimes called a frank breech. In a mixed breech presentation
the lower extremities maintain the physiological attitude throughout, ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"CASE IV. represented the difficulties sometimes met with in frank breech deliveries,
when the child is very large and the pelvis too small. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1922)
"(4) Breech presentation, especially the frank breech. Too often the patient is
allowed to continue for a long period in the second stage of labor in the ..."
6. Hand-book of Obstetrics by Rawlins Cadwallader (1908)
"A frank breech is one with the legs extended. This extension may be primary if
before labor, or secondary if it happens at labor. Extension during labor is ..."
7. A Manual of Obstetrics by Albert Freeman Africanus King (1907)
"These last have been recently called frank breech presentations. (See Figs.
135 and 136, pp. 317 and 318.) Positions of a. Breech Presentation. ..."
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