Cephalic presentation
Childbirth in which the head emerges first / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In obstetrics, a cephalic presentation or head presentation or head-first presentation is a situation at childbirth where the fetus is in a longitudinal lie and the head enters the pelvis first; the most common form of cephalic presentation is the vertex presentation, where the occiput is the leading part (the part that first enters the birth canal).[1] All other presentations are abnormal (malpresentations) and are either more difficult to deliver or not deliverable by natural means.
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Vertex presentation, occiput anterior, William Smellie, 1792 | |
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