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accoucheur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accoucheur \Ac*cou*cheur"\, n. [F., fr. accoucher. See Accouchement.] A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1759, "midwife" (properly, "male midwife"), from French accoucheur (Jules Clément, later 17c.), agent noun from accoucher "to go to childbed, be delivered" (13c.) originally simply "to lie down" (12c.), from Old French culcher "to lie," from Latin collocare, from com- "with" (see com-) + locare "to place" (see locate). The fem. is accoucheuse (1847).
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A man who assists women in childbirth; a male midwife; an obstetrician.
WordNet
n. a physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: obstetrician]
Usage examples of "accoucheur".
At least that is the modern view of many of your top-o'-the-trees accoucheurs in London.
Hosack, in which he refers to certain puerperal cases which proved fatal to several lying-in women, and in some of which the disease was supposed to be conveyed by the accoucheurs themselves.
How otherwise can be explained the very curious circumstance of the disease in one district being exclusively confined to the practice of a single physician, a Fellow of this College, extensively engaged in obstetrical practice,--while no instance of the disease has occurred in the patients under the care of any other accoucheur practising within the same district.
As to me, I think my sister must have had some general idea that I was a young offender whom an Accoucheur Policemen had taken up (on my birthday) and delivered over to her, to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law.