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UK
/ɒbstɪtɹˈɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a physician specializing in obstetrics
How To Use obstetrician In A Sentence
- Again, close liaison between obstetrician, midwife, general practitioner, cardiologist, and neonatologist is vital.
- General practitioners and, increasingly after 1950, obstetricians attended most parturient women.
- Talk to your midwife or obstetrician (pregnancy specialist) about activities you should avoid during the healing period.
- Though it's not a popular notion among doctors, there are indications that the crisis is shaking out weaker practices that had been glutting the region with obstetricians and keeping reimbursements low.
- The claim made in the Observer that the 18th-century obstetricians, given that they obtained the corpses of the pregnant women that they experimented upon through "burking" - having people murdered to order - came as a shock to many medics. The Guardian World News
- After completing his medical degree in Switzerland in 1973 he became an obstetrician and gynaecologist.
- I work as an obstetrician in a city where one in three pregnancies is terminated.
- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have stated that among all options for medicated pain relief, the epidural is the most effective for reducing pain, while allowing the woman to stay alert and actively participate in her labor.8 Among women who receive epidural pain medications, almost all (98.8 percent) have significant pain relief for at least some of their labor. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
- The outflux left some counties without a single obstetrician. Mississippi's Tort Reform Triumph
- Although our obstetrician and perinatologist had told us the diagnosis, we didn't fully comprehend what was said," Marti recalls. TTTS — Dicus