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squatting

 [skwaht´ing]
a position with the hips and knees flexed, the buttocks resting on the heels; sometimes adopted by a parturient woman at delivery or by a child with any of certain types of cardiac defects.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

squatting

Pediatrics A position adopted by a child with cyanotic congenital heart disease, classically seen in Fallot's tetralogy, linked to acute hypoxia; squatting relieves exertion-induced dyspnea by ↓ right-to-left shunt and ↑ systemic vascular resistance and pulmonary blood flow. See Shunt.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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BURTON MERE, South Wirral 0151 353 0115: Silver fish -skimmers and roach - are moving well on Willow and Beech pools where the top baits have been squatts, pinkie and chopped worm on pole.
FISHING PROSPECTS
Fishing with a 10 metre pole while feeding liberally with squatts, he caught small roach, rudd and tiny skimmers, setting the pattern for the rest of the match.
ANGLING: Drennan are super
TRENT & MERSEY CANAL: Squatts, pinkies and punch catching loads of small roach.
CHESHIRE FISHING (Tattenhall, 01829 770041):Consistent for a range of species but best catch returns in winter tend to come from small pole-fished baits such as pinkies, squatts and singlemaggot.
ANGLING
CHESHIRE FISHING, Tattenhall: Consistent for a range of species but best catch returns in winter tend to come from small pole-fished baits such as pinkies, squatts and single maggot.
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL: Very few anglers about but Ellesmere Port is said to be worth a try for small roach on pole with punch, squatt and slop.
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The 45-year-old electrician was pegged at Norton on the last section running to the marina, where he worked in shallow water along the far ledge, cupping in sloppy crumb with squatts and caster.
Mark offered double squatt on the hook to catch small roach and perch with a mid-match 2lb bream before suffering a gruelling last hour to weigh-in with 4lz 12oz.
ANGLING: Bright spark Mark
LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL: Seady catch returns of roach at Maghull and Lydiate on punch bread, squatts and hemp.
FISHERIES
He tackled the Tip Road section with a 10metre pole rig, using both punch bread and squatts, for a mixed net of skimmers, roach and perch.
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