See Also: total breech extraction(medicine)
breech extraction(medicine)
partial breech extraction(medicine)
spontaneous breech extraction(medicine)
starch gum(medicine)
Starch(medicine)
starch(1)(dictionary)
starch(encyclopedia)
starch(2)(dictionary)
breech(medicine)

starch(2) (iou) and total breech extraction (medicine)


starch(2) (iou)



starch verb trans.

Stiffen, make rigid; make formal, severe, or pompous. Long only as fig. use of sense 2. Also foll. by up. OE.
Smollett She starched up her behaviour with a double portion of reserve.
Stiffen (linen etc.) with starch. LME.
absol.: S. Hood They..learned to..starch and iron.
Fasten or stick with starch paste; apply starch paste to. Now rare. E17.
Boxing. Knock out, floor. N. Amer. slang. L20.
starched ppl adjective stiffened with or as with starch; fig. stiff, formal, precise: L16.
starchedness noun stiffness, formality, primness L17.

total breech extraction (medicine)


total breech extraction
Delivery of a foetus in breech presentation with complete extraction of the entire foetal body from the uterus.