crowning

crowning
1. Preparation of the natural crown of a tooth and covering the prepared crown with a veneer of suitable dental material (gold or non-precious metal casting, porcelain, plastic, or combinations). 2. That stage of childbirth when the fetal head has negotiated the pelvic outlet and the largest diameter of the head is encircled by the vulvar ring.

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n.
1. the stage of labour when the upper part of the infant's head is encircled by, and just passing through, the vaginal opening.
2. (in dentistry) the technique of treating and fitting a tooth with an artificial crown.

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crown·ing (krounґing) that phase in the second stage of labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice, the perineum being distended.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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