obstetrician

From obstetrics +‎ -ician.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɒbstəˈtɹɪʃən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən/

obstetrician (plural obstetricians)

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

   Synonyms: obstetrist, tocologist

   • 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:

     The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

   • 2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.

• obstetrician-gynecologist

Borrowed from French obstétricien.

obstetrician m (plural obstetricieni)

1. obstetrician