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Definition of Gynecology

1. Noun. The branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of women.

Definition of Gynecology

1. n. The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.

Definition of Gynecology

1. Noun. The study of, or the branch of medicine specializing in, the medical problems of women, especially disorders or the reproductive organs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gynecology

1. [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Gynecology

1. A branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs. Origin: gynh = a woman or female. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynecology

Literary usage of Gynecology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"HASKY W. PLATH, MD, Assistant in Obstetrics and Gynecology. ... Gynecology—Lectures and Recitations. LYNCH. First half-year, once a week. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"TOD GILLIAM, MP, Emeritus Professor of Gynecology in Ohio State University College of Medicine, and EARL M. GILLIAM, MD, Professor of Diseases of Women in ..."

3. The American Catalogue ... July 1, 1876-Dec. 31, 1910 by Lynds Eugene Jones, Richard Rogers Bowker, Augusta Isabella Appleton (1908)
"Practice of gynecology, in original contributions by American authors. ... EB Essentials of gynecology arr. as questions and answers. *$i net. ..."

4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"In the following year he engaged in the practice of his profession at Scranton, Pa., specializing in gynecology, in which branch he became a recognized ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"D., Emeritus Professor of Diseases of Women in the College of Physicians and Burgeons, New York, and PAUL F. MUNDE, MI)., Professor of Gynecology in the Xew ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"he returned to Copenhagen just in time to act as second in a duel for the Gynecology at the New York Polyclinic and at Dartmouth College, ..."

7. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"ELECTRICITY IN Gynecology AT THE HOWARD HOSPITAL. G. BETTON MASSEY, MD [Read September 9,1896.] At a time when the attention of practitioners specially ..."

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