(bōd-lŏks′)
[Pronunciation]
[Jean Louis Baudelocque, Sr., Fr. obstetrician, 1746–1810]
The distance between the depression beneath the last lumbar vertebra and the margin of the symphysis pubis; the external conjugate diameter of the pelvis.
SYN: Baudelocque's line
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