adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a foetal position (= in which you are curled up like a baby before it is born )
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I crawled into my bed and curled up in a foetal position.
foetal position
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
position
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This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg.
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The spasms nearly always cause targets to curl into a foetal position .
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Emily was curled up in a foetal position , naked, on the floor, sobbing.
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Some even resort in the middle of a battle to lying motionless in a foetal position .
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McAggott climbed over the sergeant, who had assumed the foetal position , and staggered back to his office.
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He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat.
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He was a short man, slight in build, and was curled up in the foetal position .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
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And oxygen deficiency during the foetal stage may inhibit brain development and size at birth, with or without other defect.
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Physicians were obliged to inform abortion patients about foetal development and the alternatives to terminating the pregnancy.
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Recently I treated her for a sexually transmitted disease with metronidazole, which is known to cause foetal abnormalities in rats.
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Some drugs are known to cause foetal damage and should not be taken during pregnancy.
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Some even resort in the middle of a battle to lying motionless in a foetal position.
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The spasms nearly always cause targets to curl into a foetal position.
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This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg.