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Childbirth specialist
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obstetrician
Alternative clues for the word obstetrician
Word definitions for obstetrician in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, from Latin obstetricia "midwifery," from obstetricus (see obstetric ) on model of physician .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obstetrician \Ob`ste*tri"cian\, n. One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur; especially, a physician who specializes in obstetrics.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also patron of the falsely accused, midwives, obstetricians, and pregnant women. ▪ And there are rather a lot of photographs of one particular consultant obstetrician gynaecologist, Yehudi Gordon. ▪ Flores was able to take paid ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: accoucheur ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A physician who specializes in childbirth.
Usage examples of obstetrician.
The obstetricians would keep delivering their patients over there and exposing them to what could turn out to be a fatal ambulance ride.
Larch chose to be an obstetrician because the loss of his parents inspired him to bring more children into the world, but the road that led Larch to obstetrics was strewn with bacteria.
Of course, many of the cases are not examples of true pseudocyesis, with its interesting phenomena, but instances of malingering for mercenary or other purposes, and some are calculated to deceive the most expert obstetricians by their tricks.
I have to get the other obstetricians to bring their patients back here, and I have to convince the cardiologists that they need us as much as we need them.
Mattie Henshaw, an obstetrician who ran a fulltime practice and who was now eight months pregnant with her third child.
Only obstetricians knew how much alike hands and feet felt during a cesarean birth.
Rae, in turn, represented the obstetricians of her department, all forty-five of them, two thirds of whom were male, and the majority having privileges at both the hospital and the Birth Center.
John Vincent and his cardiac arrest and her promise to Heidi to find some way to get the obstetricians to bring their low-risk patients back to Berkeley Hills Hospital.
There were three obstetricians who delivered most of their patients at the Birth Center.
If she can do that, then all the obstetricians will bring their patients back here and force me to shut the Birth Center down.
The obstetricians would keep delivering their patients over there and exposing them to what could turn out to be a fatal ambulance ride.
The Parent-Child relationship between some obstetricians and their patients essentially excludes the father.
The faculty has included psychiatrists, probation officers, ministers, paediatricians, educators, psychologists, and an obstetrician, all using the same language, P-A-C.
During her pregnancy Celia had been firm about birth procedures, which caused an early clash with her obstetrician, Dr.
Soon after, by mutual consent, Celia changed obstetricians and became the patient of Dr.