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Obstetrics   /əbstˈɛtrɪks/   Listen
Obstetrics

noun
1.
The branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother.  Synonyms: midwifery, OB, tocology.






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"Obstetrics" Quotes from Famous Books



... produced in rapid succession a number of works that immediately placed the house in the front rank of Medical Publishers. One need only cite such instances as Musser and Kelly's Treatment, Keen's Surgery, Kelly and Noble's Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery, Cabot's Differential Diagnosis, De Lee's Obstetrics, Mumford's Surgery, Cotton's Dislocations and Joint Fractures, Crandon and Ehrenfried's Surgical After-treatment, Sisson's Veterinary Anatomy, Anders and Boston's Medical Diagnosis, Gant's Constipation and Obstruction, Jordan's Bacteriology, and Kemp on Stomach, Intestines, and Pancreas. These books ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... the head-shaking. "Human beings aren't machines, Colonel. They require time to heal, time to learn, time to integrate themselves. Remember that, in spite of our increased knowledge of anesthesia, antibiotics, viricides, and obstetrics, it still takes nine months to produce a baby. We're in the same position, if not more so. After all, we can't even allow for ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... exertions of his teachers and his own industry, he has acquired even that art of arts. After which there remain not more than three, or perhaps four, years for the profitable study of such vast sciences as Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, and the like, upon his knowledge or ignorance of which it depends whether the practitioner shall diminish, or increase, the bills of mortality. Now what is it but the preposterous condition of ordinary school education which prevents a young man of seventeen, destined ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley



Words linked to "Obstetrics" :   medicine, para, midwifery, foetology, presentation, fetology, medical specialty, tocology, primipara, induction of labor, obstetrical, quadripara, incompetent cervix, obstetric, quintipara, nullipara, para I, ob, gravida I, parity, primigravida, obstetrician, perinatology



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