obstetrics

[ uhb-ste-triks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. the branch of medical science concerned with childbirth and caring for and treating women in or in connection with childbirth. : OB, ob

obstetrics

/ ɒbˈstɛtrɪks /

noun

1. functioning as singular the branch of medicine concerned with childbirth and the treatment of women before and after childbirth

obstetrics

/ ŏb-stĕt′rĭks /

1. The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth.

obstetrics

1. A branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, labor , and the period of recovery following childbirth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of obstetrics¹

First recorded in 1810–20; obstetric, -ics

Example Sentences

Dr. Jodi Abbott, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine, said patients are left wondering: “Am I being sent home because I really am OK? Or am I being sent home because they’re afraid that the solution to what’s going on with my pregnancy would be ending the pregnancy, and they’re not allowed to do that?”

From Salon

Those include two major medical facilities and also hospitals that offer such specialized medical care as obstetrics, paediatrics and oncology.

From Salon

“Whether the pregnancy was wanted or unwanted, we know that many of these are pregnancies that would have ended in abortion had people had access to those services,” Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN.

From Salon

“It’s easy for me to imagine the pressures put on doctors in Idaho, in Texas, in Mississippi, in Alabama,” Carole Joffe, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, told Salon.

From Salon

When I was a medical student exactly 60 years ago, on my first rotation on obstetrics in 1963 as a third-year medical student, I saw a lot of things happening that were quite frightening.

From Salon