Podalically
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Podalically is an adverb meaning By means of, or in terms of the foot, or feet collectively.
Meaning
By means of, or in terms of the foot, or feet collectively.
Example Sentences
The shoulder presentation was turned podalically. In the case of the footling the feet were kept up and the primiparous passages dilated by caoutchouc bags.
The Indian Vedas note midwives only delivered vertex presentations. Doctors delivered all other presentations. Bilateral footling, unilateral footling, and breech were delivered podalically.
The probe is moved podalically along the common femoral artery. The level of the bifurcation region of the common femoral artery into the superficial femoral artery and the profunda can be visualized but the profunda is rarely seen.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pedally, footly, flatfootedly, pedically, bipedally, pedometrically.
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