See fetal position in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for fetal position meaning in English (2.3kB)
{
"etymology_text": "From the position a fetus typically assumes late in pregnancy.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fetal positions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fetal position (plural fetal positions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The location of the fetus inside a womb."
],
"id": "en-fetal_position-en-noun-XV6Y4AnH",
"links": [
[
"location",
"location"
],
[
"fetus",
"fetus"
],
[
"womb",
"womb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally) The location of the fetus inside a womb."
],
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tāizī",
"sense": "location of the fetus",
"word": "胎姿"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "location of the fetus",
"word": "sikiön asento"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The fetal position is the most common sleeping position.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 February 1, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)",
"text": "When life's stresses get to be too much ... and my pacifier and thumb don't cut it ... there's only one thing for me to do. Return to the fetal position.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A posture in which the head and knees are brought close to the abdomen, usually while sitting or lying on one side."
],
"id": "en-fetal_position-en-noun-2n5PJkPX",
"links": [
[
"posture",
"posture"
],
[
"head",
"head"
],
[
"knee",
"knee"
],
[
"abdomen",
"abdomen"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "41 59",
"tags": [
"UK",
"rare"
],
"word": "foetal position"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "蜷縮"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "quánsuō",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "蜷缩"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "sikiöasento"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "fósturstelling"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "pēpeketanga"
}
]
}
],
"word": "fetal position"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns"
],
"etymology_text": "From the position a fetus typically assumes late in pregnancy.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fetal positions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fetal position (plural fetal positions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The location of the fetus inside a womb."
],
"links": [
[
"location",
"location"
],
[
"fetus",
"fetus"
],
[
"womb",
"womb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally) The location of the fetus inside a womb."
],
"tags": [
"literally"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The fetal position is the most common sleeping position.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 February 1, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)",
"text": "When life's stresses get to be too much ... and my pacifier and thumb don't cut it ... there's only one thing for me to do. Return to the fetal position.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A posture in which the head and knees are brought close to the abdomen, usually while sitting or lying on one side."
],
"links": [
[
"posture",
"posture"
],
[
"head",
"head"
],
[
"knee",
"knee"
],
[
"abdomen",
"abdomen"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"UK",
"rare"
],
"word": "foetal position"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tāizī",
"sense": "location of the fetus",
"word": "胎姿"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "location of the fetus",
"word": "sikiön asento"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "蜷縮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "quánsuō",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "蜷缩"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "sikiöasento"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "fósturstelling"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "posture",
"word": "pēpeketanga"
}
],
"word": "fetal position"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.