0 a device shaped like a cup, used to help a baby be born by putting it over the baby's head and using suction (= removing air) to pull the baby out of the mother's body: --
It may become necessary to use forceps or even a ventouse delivery.
The baby was born 10 hours later by ventouse.
Three of these babies had normal births, one had a traumatic ventouse and five were delivered by forceps.
As the baby's heart rate began to drop, my obstetrician had to use a ventouse to suck him out.
Several recent trials have shown that ventouse extraction in difficult labour is preferable for the mother to forceps.
No attempt was made to use forceps or a ventouse, a vacuum device, to undertake a normal vaginal delivery.
So with one tug on the ventouse, out he came.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
ventouse