The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . Pig. • — Straight dorsal posture. Note the lumbar arrhing. extended. Employed in abdominal palpation and external pelvimetry(Figs. 291 and 296). 2. Flexed Dorsal Posture.—On the back, the buttocks eitheral the edgeof the table or bed. or about 25 ••m. (10 inches) away, the feet on the in vagino-abdominal examination, internal pelvimetry, catheter-ization, the perineal stage of labor, to relax the pelvic floor in the perinealstage of forceps extraction ; in external version ; bipolar version : manualdilatati
The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . Pig. • — Straight dorsal posture. Note the lumbar arrhing. extended. Employed in abdominal palpation and external pelvimetry(Figs. 291 and 296). 2. Flexed Dorsal Posture.—On the back, the buttocks eitheral the edgeof the table or bed. or about 25 ••m. (10 inches) away, the feet on the in vagino-abdominal examination, internal pelvimetry, catheter-ization, the perineal stage of labor, to relax the pelvic floor in the perinealstage of forceps extraction ; in external version ; bipolar version : manualdilatation of the cervix (Figs. 292 and 297). * The full literature to date is given in the Amor. Jour. Obstetric*. Dec., 1898, and June,1899; articles by K. L. Dickinson. 496 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF OBSTETRICS. 3. Full-flexed Dorsal Posture.—On the back, the hip-joints and knee-joints strongly flexed, the knees as near the shoulder as feasible. Employed. Fig. 292.—Flexed dorsal posture—feet on table. to enlarge the outlet of the bony pelvis for midway and low forceps oper-ations ; for internal version ; for operations on the cervix and perineum ;
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