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fetal position

noun

  1. a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.


fetal position

noun

  1. a bodily position similar to that of a fetus in the womb, with the knees up towards the chest and the head bent forward
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fetal position1

First recorded in 1960–65
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The witness testified that she spotted Lockhart in a nearby yard two years ago on June 30, apparently clutching her belly in pain and lying in the fetal position.

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“You’re all in the fetal position,” Bannon said Monday morning, addressing the left.

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But the story winds back decades in a sort of past-life regression, where Kendrick imagines other versions of himself in music history, including an evocative verse as “a Black woman in the Chitlin’ Circuit … My voice was angelic, straight from heaven, the crowd sobbed … Had everything I wanted, but I couldn’t escape addiction / Heroin needles had me in fetal position, restricted.”

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A glute strain began affecting his sciatic nerve and the pain left Bosa unable to do anything except lie on an exercise ball in the fetal position for hours.

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“You kind of have to take it with some humor,” she said, “because otherwise I think you’d just be in the fetal position.”

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