Anne Schulz Dec 16, 2020:

Hi Aida and/or Stuart :-) A lot of aspects in one (or two) chunk(s)... First, I did not see your proposal when I responded to Brent. Second, I agree with you about "examination" not being the most appropriate choice; but as Stephen mostly asked about "abd.", I chose to agree with "abdominal" and add a comment re palpation, rather than disagreeing for "examination". Third, I read "abdominal fundus" not only in your, but also in Brent's answer (and maybe "abdominal fundus" was even the reason for Tanja to think of the gastric fundus, who knows ;-). In the book Brent quoted, "palpable abdominal fundus" actually appears once, as a sort of shorthand for "abdominally palpable fundus" (ugh!), but the author speaks mostly of "abdominal palpation of the fundus". Similarly, you may say, there is an "abdominal fundus" when the fundus rises above the pubic bone during pregnancy. But, fourth, my comment was driven by grammatical rather than medical concerns. No offense meant to anyone in particular, it is just a sort of "allergen" to me, because I see so many "zweistöckige Hausbesitzer" in translations I receive for proofreading and it drives me nuts that so many people seem to have lost the feel for their own language!

Stuart and Aida Nelson Dec 16, 2020:

@ Anne - abdominal So, are you saying abdominal should not be included in the answer? For what I have seen, the uterine fundus is at abdominal level. I have this link in my answer:

Here, you can see that the fundus is at the level of the abdomen:

To measure the symphysis fundal distance the midwife should place a tape measure at the highest point of the fundus and measure downwards to the upper border of the symphysis pubis (not the pubic hair line

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/midwifery/ab...

Anne Schulz Dec 16, 2020:

Please forgive me a bit of nitpicking, as I see one of my all-time favourite foes shining through some of the comments: Based on German grammatical conventions, and unlike English conventions, "abd." (which I am sure is "abdominal") qualifies "Kontrolle". This is NOT about an "abdominal fundus". My esteemed colleague Rolf Kern once created (or quoted) on this platform the most illustrative example of a "zweistöckige Hausbesitzer" (two-storey building owner).