A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . corresponding to the pubis of the mother, while the limbs POSITIONS OF THE F(ETUS. 247 are towards the sacrum, aj^ainst which they are more or less is sometimes termetl tlio second posterior j)06ilion. 3. liiijht Lninho-Uial rosition.—The fatus is lyinj^on the right croup and /<)/;/,s opposite the asceudinj^ branch of the right iHum ofthe female, and the hmbs towards the left Hank of the mother, wherethey must be s
A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . corresponding to the pubis of the mother, while the limbs POSITIONS OF THE F(ETUS. 247 are towards the sacrum, aj^ainst which they are more or less is sometimes termetl tlio second posterior j)06ilion. 3. liiijht Lninho-Uial rosition.—The fatus is lyinj^on the right croup and /<)/;/,s opposite the asceudinj^ branch of the right iHum ofthe female, and the hmbs towards the left Hank of the mother, wherethey must be sought for if they do not present in the pelvis. 4. Left Lumbo-ilial Position. — This is exactly the reverse of thepreceding position. 5. liiijht Lumho-ilio-sacral Position.—This is intermediate betweenthe lumbo-sacral and the right lumbo-ilial positions, the lumbar regionbeing towards the right ilio-sacral articulation. 6. Left Liimbo-supraCoti/loid Position.—This is also intermediatebetween the lumbo-pubic and left lumbo-ilial position, being the reverseof the preceding, as the withers are at the other extremity of the sameobliiiue Fig. \lo-sacr.\i. Position in the I)\K Tkicskntation. 7. Left Lumho-ilio-siicral Position is intermediate between the lumbo-sacral and left lumbo-ilial positions. H. Jiight L umbo-supra-cotyloid Position is the opposite of the]M-eceding. The lumbo-sacral and lumbo-ilio-sacral positions are the same astheir corresponding anterior positions, and therefore natural; but thelumbo-pubic and lumbn-supra-cotifloid are, on the contrary, the reverseof these, and an- accordingly abnormal, while the luniho-ilial, like thedorso-ilial, hold tln middle place with regard to facilities and diOicultiesin parturition. Positions in the Dokso-lumhau Pkesentation.—Here the fcctusis presented across or , and it may lie on one or other of itssides, its head towards one of the maternal flanks, and the body curvedlike that
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