Question 294 · LEK · Factors of labor
The shortest circumference of the foetal head is in:
- A. the fronto-occipital diameter.
- B. the mento-occipital diameter.
- C. the fronto-suboccipital diameter.
- D. the suboccipito-bregmatic diameter.
- E. the occipito-bregmatic diameter.
Hint
A fully flexed head, as in the normal occiput anterior position, presents the most favourable plane to the birth canal.
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