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NM 704 EXAM 1 LATEST 2026/2027 ACTUAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| |JUST OUT!!!
What mechanism of labor occurs at the midplane? -
ANSWER-(1) internal rotation (2) descent
What mechanism of labor occurs at the outlet? -
ANSWER-(1) restitution (2) descent
What is the presenting part of the baby in relation to the
mother? - ANSWER-Fetal position
What is the back of the fetal head? - ANSWER-Occiput
What is the top of fetal head? - ANSWER-Vertex
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What is the brow or front of the fetal head? - ANSWER-
Sinciput
What is the downward passage of the presenting part
through the bony pelvis? - ANSWER-Descent
What cardinal movement may begin before labor? -
ANSWER-Descent
What is the degree of flexion or extension of the fetal
head? - ANSWER-Attitude
What is the natural attitude of the fetus? - ANSWER-
Partial flexion
What is it when the biparietal diameter (BPD-the largest
transverse diameter of the fetal head) has passed through
the inlet? - ANSWER-Engagement
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What is it when the top of the presenting part (head in
cephalic presentations) has reached the level of the ischial
spines? This is the same as 0 station? - ANSWER-
Engagement
Can the inlet be assessed through vaginal exam? -
ANSWER-No
What is the length of one fetal parietal bone to another? -
ANSWER-Biparietal diameter
What is the largest transverse diameter of the fetal head?
- ANSWER-Biparietal diameter
What are the sutures in the fetal skull? - ANSWER-(1)
coronal (2) sagittal (3) lambdoid (4) frontal
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What plane has the least amount of space? - ANSWER-
Midplane
What pelvis is round or transverse oval; transverse
diameter is a little longer than the anteroposterior? -
ANSWER-Gynecoid
What pelvis is heart or wedge shaped? - ANSWER-
Android
What pelvis is long anteroposterior oval? - ANSWER-
Anthropoid
What pelvis type engages in transverse diameter with
marked acynclitism? - ANSWER-Platypelloid
What pelvis type engages in anteroposterior or oblique;
often occiput posterior position? - ANSWER-Anthropoid
NM 704 EXAM 1 LATEST 2026/2027 ACTUAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| |JUST OUT!!!
What mechanism of labor occurs at the midplane? -
ANSWER-(1) internal rotation (2) descent
What mechanism of labor occurs at the outlet? -
ANSWER-(1) restitution (2) descent
What is the presenting part of the baby in relation to the
mother? - ANSWER-Fetal position
What is the back of the fetal head? - ANSWER-Occiput
What is the top of fetal head? - ANSWER-Vertex
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What is the brow or front of the fetal head? - ANSWER-
Sinciput
What is the downward passage of the presenting part
through the bony pelvis? - ANSWER-Descent
What cardinal movement may begin before labor? -
ANSWER-Descent
What is the degree of flexion or extension of the fetal
head? - ANSWER-Attitude
What is the natural attitude of the fetus? - ANSWER-
Partial flexion
What is it when the biparietal diameter (BPD-the largest
transverse diameter of the fetal head) has passed through
the inlet? - ANSWER-Engagement
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What is it when the top of the presenting part (head in
cephalic presentations) has reached the level of the ischial
spines? This is the same as 0 station? - ANSWER-
Engagement
Can the inlet be assessed through vaginal exam? -
ANSWER-No
What is the length of one fetal parietal bone to another? -
ANSWER-Biparietal diameter
What is the largest transverse diameter of the fetal head?
- ANSWER-Biparietal diameter
What are the sutures in the fetal skull? - ANSWER-(1)
coronal (2) sagittal (3) lambdoid (4) frontal
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What plane has the least amount of space? - ANSWER-
Midplane
What pelvis is round or transverse oval; transverse
diameter is a little longer than the anteroposterior? -
ANSWER-Gynecoid
What pelvis is heart or wedge shaped? - ANSWER-
Android
What pelvis is long anteroposterior oval? - ANSWER-
Anthropoid
What pelvis type engages in transverse diameter with
marked acynclitism? - ANSWER-Platypelloid
What pelvis type engages in anteroposterior or oblique;
often occiput posterior position? - ANSWER-Anthropoid
