Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the recuperative period following delivery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of medical art which deals with parturition and the treatment and care of women during pregnancy and childbirth; the practice of midwifery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun archaic The science of midwifery.
- noun The branch of medicine that deals with childbirth or the care of women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
care ofwomen during and afterpregnancy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother
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Examples
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Dr. Tiffany A. Moore Simas, the associate director of the residency program in obstetrics, demands that residents calculate B.M.I. as a routine part of prenatal treatment.
Obesity is Becoming an Increasing Burden in the Maternity Ward | Impact Lab 2010
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Later, she was trained in obstetrics at Tuskegee; but in the desperate need in the countryside, and with a 'quiet passive aggressiveness,' she actually practiced medicine and established the first V.D. clinic and the first pre-natal clinic in the county.
Maude Callen Part 5: "In the Desperate Need of the Countryside" Linda 2009
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Dr. Mark Johnson is trained both in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive genetics.
Center for Fetal Research & the Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy Fellowship 2010
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Drs. Michael Bebbington and Stephanie Mann are trained in obstetrics and gynecology, and maternal-fetal medicine.
Center for Fetal Research & the Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy Fellowship 2010
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Later, she was trained in obstetrics at Tuskegee; but in the desperate need in the countryside, and with a 'quiet passive aggressiveness,' she actually practiced medicine and established the first V.D. clinic and the first pre-natal clinic in the county.
Archive 2009-02-01 Linda 2009
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The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment is pleased to sponsor this three-day multidisciplinary educational forum for clinicians in obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, prenatal radiology, neonatology, pediatric cardiology and genetic counseling, scheduled March 16-18, 2011, in Philadelphia.
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In Rock J, Gant N (eds): Advances in obstetrics and gynecology.
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Fatima Husain, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, has told how she sees Muslim women coming for treatment with strangle marks around their necks and bruises on their pregnant bumps.
Muslim men ‘think they have God-given right to beat wives’, claims female Muslim medic 2008
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Prostaglandins are now widely used in obstetrics and gynecology.
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If, however, your wife were to be delivered by Dr. Elizabeth Wylie, the female specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, who delivered all six of my children, she would receive $180, $31.50 more than my husband, not because she is a female, but because she has taken additional training, possesses greater expertise and much more experience in obstetrics than either he or I.
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