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Obstetrics

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the recuperative period following delivery.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The care of women during and after pregnancy

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The science of midwifery.

n. The branch of medicine that deals with childbirth or the care of women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. That department of medical art which deals with parturition and the treatment and care of women during pregnancy and childbirth; the practice of midwifery.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother

Word Usage

"The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment is pleased to sponsor this three-day multidisciplinary educational forum for clinicians in obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, prenatal radiology, neonatology, pediatric cardiology and genetic counseling, scheduled March 16-18, 2011, in Philadelphia."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

medical specialty medicine

Hyponym

foetology perinatology fetology

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

midwifery tocology

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

econometrics geometrics metrics