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obstetrician
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
obstetrician
noun
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▪ 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 family-care time to go to the obstetrician with her.
▪ For Barker Brown and many other gynaecologists and obstetricians of the period, clitoridectomy was the solution.
▪ I was disappointed especially once the obstetrician began talking Caesareans and epidurals.
▪ The form contemplated that it would also be countersigned by an obstetrician, but it was not so signed.
▪ There were a few tears even the obstetrician seemed a bit overcome and kept shaking my hand.
▪ They were approached by a senior obstetrician at the John Radcliffe Maternity hospital.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obstetrician

Obstetrician \Ob`ste*tri"cian\, n. One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur; especially, a physician who specializes in obstetrics.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obstetrician

1828, from Latin obstetricia "midwifery," from obstetricus (see obstetric) on model of physician.

Wiktionary
obstetrician

n. (context medicine English) A physician who specializes in childbirth.

WordNet
obstetrician

n. a physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: accoucheur]

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.