noun
breech
BREECH/brˈitʃ/
The rear or hind end of a body.
The fetus lies with its breech toward the cervix and its head upward.
Etymology
The garment name came to mean the lower body or posterior—the part covered by breeches. In childbirth, this identifies a baby positioned with its lower body, rather than its head, first.
In context
you'll feel the tail and then you'll say oh oh and then you know but you've got a breech presentation breech presentations aren't so bad as long as both feet are in the in position
More examples
- The soldier opens the breech to load the firearm.
- The old medical text uses breech for the buttocks.
- A breech birth presents the baby's buttocks or feet first.
Forms
breech · breeches
Similar words
- muzzle
- The muzzle is the front opening of a firearm barrel; the breech is its rear end.