cephalopelvic en · ADJ
Etymology
From cephalo- + pelvic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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 infarction, fetal weak heart, blood in the lungs, hypoxia, maternal fever, Rhesus antibodies, tentorial tear, cephalopelvic disproportion, cerebral haemorrhage, a fall down stairs, liver rupture, meconium aspiration, fibroids, prolonged rupture of membranes, compromised blood flow, macrosomia, and “statistics”.
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, →DOI: