Obstetrician
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A physician who specializes in childbirth.
"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."
- 2 a physician specializing in obstetrics wordnet
Example
More examples"My friend asked that I call the obstetrician because she was afraid the baby was going to be born too soon."
Etymology
From obstetrics + -ician.
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