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Obstetrics   /əbstˈɛtrɪks/   Listen
Obstetrics

noun
1.
The branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother.  Synonyms: midwifery, OB, tocology.






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"Obstetrics" Quotes from Famous Books



... inherent in his profession. He had a reputation that was growing to amount to fame as a specialist in the very wide field of gynecology, obstetrics and abdominal surgery. The words themselves made Miss ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... galvanism or electricity any share in the mysterious function? Some among the modern physiologists have supposed that there is an electrical or magnetic influence which effects generation. Even within a few months, Dr. Harvey L. Byrd, Professor of Obstetrics in the Medical Department of Washington University of Baltimore, has asserted that he has 'every reason for believing that fecundation or impregnation is always an electrical phenomenon; ... it results from ...
— The Physical Life of Woman: - Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother • Dr. George H Napheys

... Chevalier. Pathology of Foreign Bodies in the Air and Food Passages. Mutter Lecture, 1918. Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, March, 1919. Also, by the same author, Mechanism of the Physical Signs of Foreign Bodies in the Lungs. Proceedings of the ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson



Words linked to "Obstetrics" :   obstetrical, primigravida, para, quadripara, obstetric, midwifery, foetology, ob, presentation, nullipara, induction of labor, gravida I, para I, quintipara, parity, incompetent cervix, perinatology, fetology, primipara, obstetrician, medical specialty, medicine



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