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forceps delivery

noun
delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal; since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries 
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forceps delivery n.
The birth of a child assisted by extraction with a forceps designed to grasp the head.

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