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obstetrician

noun

  1. specialist in obstetrics
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɒbstəˈtɹɪʃən/ / /ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English obstetrics English -ician English obstetrician From obstetrics + -ician.

  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.

    “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.