Definition of Obstetrician

1. Noun. A physician specializing in obstetrics.

Exact synonyms: Accoucheur
Specialized synonyms: Perinatologist
Generic synonyms: Medical Specialist, Specialist
Derivative terms: Obstetrics

Definition of Obstetrician

1. n. One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.

Definition of Obstetrician

1. Noun. (medicine) A physician who specializes in childbirth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obstetrician

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Medical Definition of Obstetrician

1. A physician specialist expert in the delivery of total obstetrical care and the diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological disease. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obstetrician

obstetrical
obstetrical binder
obstetrical delivery
obstetrical nursing
obstetrical palsy
obstetrical paralysis
obstetrical toad
obstetrically
obstetricate
obstetricated
obstetricates
obstetricating
obstetrication
obstetrician (current term)
obstetricians
obstetricious
obstetrick
obstetricks
obstetrics
obstetricy
obstinacies
obstinacy
obstinance
obstinances
obstinancies
obstinancy
obstinant
obstinate

Literary usage of Obstetrician

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

1. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"He was educated in Germany, chiefly in Berlin, and even .ined the position of a Minister, doubtless the first obstetrician who :• won such advancement. ..."

2. Gynecology, obstetrics, menopause by A H P Leuf (1902)
"A DUTY OF THE obstetrician. on When a woman is delivered of a living child, and she passes through the puerperium within a couple of weeks so as to be able ..."

3. Painless Childbirth: A General Survey of All Painless Methods, with Special by Marguerite Tracy, Mary Brown Sumner Boyd (1915)
"... the average obstetrician might avail himself of it and the average success obtained with chloroform a la reine might produce the condition of analgesia ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1886)
"... British Gyna-cological Society; Obstetric Physician, Mater Misericordiae Hospital; Physician to Hospital for Sick Children ; Consulting obstetrician, ..."

5. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1921)
"... Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of California Medical School; obstetrician and Gynaecologist. University of California Hospital, San Francisco. ..."

6. Philadelphia Hospital Reports by Philadelphia Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) (1893)
"A FAMOUS COUNTRY obstetrician TWO CENTURIES AGO. LECTURE DELIVERED AT THK PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL BY THEOPHILUS PARVIN, MD IT has been asserted that biography ..."

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