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Obstetrician
//ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən// noun
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Noun
- 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
Etymology
From obstetrics + -ician.
See also for "obstetrician"
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