Definition of "breech delivery" []

• Delivery of a fetus with the buttocks or feet appearing first. Also called breech birth. (noun)

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• "This misfortune was the result of an extraordinarily difficult breech delivery performed without anesthesia on his eighteen-year-old mother, Princess Victoria of England."