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n. - Faulty position.

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  • (CO2) in respiratory gases to provide a rapid and reliable method for detecting life-threatening conditions both in intubated and non-intubated patients, such as...
  • The deviations from the ordinary direction of organs partake for the most part more of the nature of variations than of absolute malposition or displacement.
  • The causes of difficult labor, according to Gilbert, are malposition, dropsy, immoderate size and death of the fetus, debility of the uterus and obstruction of the...
  • Assuming that her pain was from acute malposition of the uterus, and remembering a trick taught to him by one of his former professors, Sims asked the woman to get on...
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