fetal position
noun
: a position (as of a sleeping person) in which the body lies curled up on one side with the arms and legs drawn up and the head bowed forward and which is assumed in some forms of psychic regression
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During a grizzly attack, experts like Manley suggest lying in the fetal position, covering your stomach, being quiet, and playing dead.
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Benjamin Alva Polley, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
When the door finally open, the man was on the floor in the fetal position, bleeding from his torso.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Take my marbles and go home and get in the fetal position?
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
When the door opened, Combs and his son, Justin Dior Combs, allegedly walked out, leaving a third man bleeding on the floor in a fetal position with gunshot wounds, Jones says in a civil lawsuit.
—Will Carless, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
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Benjamin Alva Polley, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
When the door finally open, the man was on the floor in the fetal position, bleeding from his torso.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Take my marbles and go home and get in the fetal position?
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
When the door opened, Combs and his son, Justin Dior Combs, allegedly walked out, leaving a third man bleeding on the floor in a fetal position with gunshot wounds, Jones says in a civil lawsuit.
—Will Carless, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Fetal position.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetal%20position. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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