Search Result for "forceps delivery":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

forceps delivery
    n 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