PONTIANAK

Etymology

Proper noun

Pontianak

A city in, and the capital of, West Kalimantan province in Indonesia.

Etymology

Noun

pontianak (plural pontianaks)

A female vampiric ghost in Malaysian and Indonesian mythology, said to be the spirit of a woman who died while pregnant.

Alternative form of pontianac

Source: Wiktionary



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PRESENTATION

(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”


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