Seen from a more-typical oblique position, however, each side of a square piece is somewhat akin to a low arch that joins neighboring corners.

At the beginning of labour, the baby is generally in an oblique position, facing either the right or left side of the mother's back.

The construct suffix -n appears in oblique positions, such as possessive phrases.

The withering blasts were accurate; partly protected by the oblique position of the cab, The Shadow could not be reached by answering shots.

Leopold's Maneuvers may find the fetus in an oblique or breech position or lying transverse as a result of the abnormal position of the placenta.

When, however, the femur is in its natural oblique position the lower surfaces of the two condyles lie practically in the same horizontal plane.

It carries its body in an oblique position, lifting its hindlimbs high.

Their fall would, of course, have exposed me, and as it was they came to rest in an oblique position of by no means stable equilibrium.

I felt that it was in an oblique position, lowering the stern, and raising the bows.

Other unfavourable birth positions include breech birth, posterior position, oblique position, and transverse position.