podalic

[ poh-dal-ik ]

adjective

, Medicine/Medical.

1. pertaining to the feet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of podalic¹

1885–90; podal of the feet ( pod-, -al ¹ ) + -ic

Example Sentences

When the mother wants to remove it she bends forward, at the same time passing her left hand up the back under her garments, and seizing the child by the feet, pulls it downward to the left; then, passing the right hand under the front of the dress, she again seizes the feet and extracts it by a kind of podalic delivery.

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