Noun: asynclitism
- The presentation during labour of the head of the foetus at an abnormal angle
"The midwife detected asynclitism and adjusted the mother's position";
- obliquity
Type of: abnormalcy [US], abnormality
Part of: childbed [archaic], confinement, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], lying-in, parturiency, travail [literary]
Encyclopedia: Asynclitism