Word info

fetal position

Noun

Meaning

(literally) The location of the fetus inside a womb.

A posture in which the head and knees are brought as close to the abdomen as possible.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Many women know what it's like to try to concentrate on your work when all you want to do is curl up in the fetal position with a heating pad. Source: Internet

Instead, search and rescue would find me curled up in a fetal position sucking my thumb. Source: Internet

I'm the troubleshooter, jumping into action while Jonathan is below deck in the fetal position furiously rubbing his lucky rabbit's foot and incanting, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Source: Internet

When that time of the month rolls around, all you want to do is assume fetal position, stuff your face with junk food, crank up T. Swift and throw shade at your BGFs for not going through the same pain. Source: Internet

Rather than curling into the fetal position, the latest suggestions from the National Park Service and others is to lay flat, belly down, with backpack still on your back, and cover one’s head with hands. Source: Internet

I was so desperate for relief from my symptoms (and to eat meals that didn’t involve curling up in the fetal position afterward) that I gradually scaled back on socializing. Source: Internet

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