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Alfred C. Beck
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn. Author of Obstetrical Practice.

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A series of medical illustrations showing the stages of childbirth: the baby's position at the onset of labor, flexion, internal rotation of the head, extension, external rotation of the head, and the uterus immediately after birth with the placenta and umbilical cord.
Birth, process of bringing forth a child from the uterus, or womb. The prior development of the child in the uterus is described in the article human embryology. The process and series of changes that take place in a woman’s organs and tissues as a result of the developing fetus are discussed in…
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