(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 malposition of tracheal tubes, unsuspected ventilatory failure, circulatory failure and defective breathing circuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

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 maternal passages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

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 her knees and elbows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation] Reference

The large majority of those women whose health is affected, because of some "female weakness," suffer from a displacement, or malposition of the internal organs, and as this condition is most frequently a product of maternity, there would seem to be some reasonable degree of justification for the assumption that the wrecked health is the result of a legitimate physiological act, and consequently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The pathology of this deformity is obscure, but there might have been malposition in utero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

But there are edifices of this description which cry aloud to the gods by the force of their own ugliness and malposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America — Volume 1] Reference

In such case that is sufficient to overcome the muscular contraction and correct the overlapping or other malposition of the bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

A similar method of pressure is exercised by the Japanese obstetrician in correcting malposition during the later months of pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

Scapular (shoulder blade) pain is the result of abnormal scapular movement, malposition and snapping of bursal tissue around the scapula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference

If a malposition existed, this same succussion was used with the feet high, so as to shake the child into the roomy portions of the womb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

Perhaps, in four cases out of five, this breaking down is one of the symptoms of a displacement of the internal organs, -- a malposition, in other words, of the uterus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference

On the other hand, if the malposition is not recognized until months or years later, simple procedures will prove inefficient, and a surgical operation will become necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy] Reference

Loss of lung sounds in one or both lungs are a sign of pneumothorax, hemothorax, tension pneumothorax, and malposition of the endotracheal tube in one of the main stem bronchi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Surgery] Reference

It is used to correct malposition, to produce abortion, to stimulate labor pains, but, above all, for the expression of the after-birth and the prevention of post-partum hemorrhage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

In cases of malposition, which are only discovered by the simple fact that the child is not expelled in proper time, more violent means are resorted to, such as forcible kneading, shaking, tossing in a blanket, and tramping upon the abdomen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

This is also the case in Japan, and whether the diagnosis of a malposition is made in the early stages of pregnancy or not, it is a fact that the abdomen is subjected to this treatment, and, unquestionably, in many instances, the position is thus rectified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

This malposition can prolong labor because the baby’s head must rotate further than usual to face the mother’s front, or occiput anterior OA, the favorable position for birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference

Back pain or prolonged active labor is sometimes caused by a subtle malposition called asynclitism, in which the baby’s head is tilted and the top of it isn’t centered on the cervix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference

One of the most common reasons for prolonged active labor is a baby who’s in an unfavorable position, or malposition, and doesn’t fit into the pelvis as well as a baby in a favorable position does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference