| delivery obstetrical delivery | the act of delivering a child |
rescue
deliverance
delivery
saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
| jail delivery | the use of force to liberate prisoners |
| pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
breech delivery
breech birth
breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
frank breech
frank breech delivery | position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet |
d cesarean delivery
caesarean delivery
caesarian delivery
cesarean section
cesarian section
caesarean section
caesarian section
C-section
cesarean
cesarian
caesarean
caesarian
abdominal delivery a b a a | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
| forceps delivery | 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 |
| delivery bringing | the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail), his reluctant delivery of bad news |
healthcare delivery
health care delivery
care delivery | the provision of health care |
delivery livery
legal transfer | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another |
delivery truck
delivery van
panel truck | a van suitable for delivering goods or services to customers |
rural free delivery
RFD | free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas |
| special delivery | mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge) |
manner of speaking
speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
| delivery | the event of giving birth, she had a difficult delivery |
general delivery
poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
administrative district
administrative division
territorial division | a district defined for administrative purposes |
borderland
border district
march
marchland | district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area, the Welsh marches between England and Wales |
| district line | the boundary between two districts |
| city district | a district of a town or city |
voting precinct
election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
business district
downtown | the central area or commercial center of a town or city, the heart of Birmingham's downtown |
| congressional district | a territorial division of a state, entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives |
district
territory
territorial dominion
dominion | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
| federal district | a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation |
residential district
residential area
community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
| red-light district | a district with many brothels |
| tenement district | a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses |
| school district | a district whose public schools are administered together |
| country rural area | an area outside of cities and towns, his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country |
Lake District
Lakeland | a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain |
District of Columbia
D.C.
DC | the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington, chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia |
continental slope
bathyal zone
bathyal district | the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone |
| liposomal delivery vector | a transducing vector that uses liposomes to carry the gene of interest |
transducing vector
gene delivery vector | a vector for delivering genes into cells |
| viral delivery vector | a transducing vector that uses a retrovirus |
deliveryman
delivery boy
deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries |
district attorney
DA | an official prosecutor for a judicial district |
| district manager | a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district |
zone
district | regulate housing in, of certain areas of towns |
| rural | living in or characteristic of farming or country life, rural people, large rural households, unpaved rural roads, an economy that is basically rural |
| rural | of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city, rural electrification, rural free delivery |
C.O.D.
COD
cash on delivery | collecting the charges upon delivery, mail a package C.O.D. |