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Definition of Obstetric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics. "Obstetric hospital"

Definition of Obstetric

1. a. Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art.

Definition of Obstetric

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to obstetrics (the care of women during and after pregnancy). ¹

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Definition of Obstetric

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Obstetric

1. Pertaining to obstetrics This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obstetric

Literary usage of Obstetric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"This book gives an excellent account of modern obstetric surgery from the English standpoint. Where tetanic contraction of the uterus occurs in complicated ..."

2. Obstetrics for nurses by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1922)
"CHAPTER V obstetric OPERATIONS THE frequency of obstetric operations in some ... The general practitioner will attempt obstetric operations of the gravity ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1852)
"The Principles and Practice of obstetric Medicine and Surgery, in reference to the Process of Parturition. With One Hundred and Twenty Illustrations on ..."

4. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1921)
"Second, that if women do bear children, they must have competent nursing in cooperation with skillful obstetric service. Third, that none of us can hope to ..."

5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"IT is not my intention to consume the time of this Society by giving a history of the origin and use of the obstetric forceps, nor to enter into a general ..."

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