FORCEPS DELIVERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forceps delivery mean? 

• FORCEPS DELIVERY (noun)
  The noun FORCEPS DELIVERY has 1 sense:

1. delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal; since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries

  Familiarity information: FORCEPS DELIVERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORCEPS DELIVERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal; since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("forceps delivery" is a kind of...):

delivery; obstetrical delivery (the act of delivering a child)