obstetrics

See also: obstètrics

English

Alternative forms

• ob., obs., obstet., obstetr. (abbreviation)
• obstetricks (obsolete)

Etymology

From obstetric.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əbˈstɛ.trɪks/, /ɑbˈstɛ.trɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

obstetrics (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The care of women during and after pregnancy.

   Coordinate term: gynecology

   • 2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPR‎^[1]:

     A pilot study conducted in 2023 by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Erlangen University Hospital in Germany involved 104 patients and concluded that clinical breast examinations by MTEs who were visually impaired were as accurate in identifying potentially cancerous tumors as doctors trained in this procedure.

Derived terms

• OB-GYN
• teleobstetrics

Related terms

• obstetrician

Translations

care of women during and after pregnancy

• Armenian: մանկաբարձություն (hy) (mankabarjutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: акушерство (bg) n (akušerstvo)
• Catalan: obstetrícia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 產科學 / 产科学 (chǎnkēxué), 助產術 / 助产术 (zhùchǎnshù)

• Czech: porodnictví (cs) n
• Danish: obstetrik (da) c
• Dutch: verloskunde (nl) f
• Esperanto: akuŝologio, obstetriko
• Faroese: nærfrøði f
• Finnish: synnytysoppi (fi), obstetriikka (fi)
• French: obstétrique (fr) f
• German: Geburtshilfe (de) f, Obstetrik (de) f
• Greek: οβστετρική f (ovstetrikí)
• Hungarian: szülészet (hu)
• Ido: akusharto
• Indonesian: obstetri (id), kandungan (id)
• Irish: cnáimhseachas m
• Italian: ostetricia (it) f
• Japanese: 産科学 (ja) (さんかがく, sankagaku)
• Kazakh: акушерлік (akuşerlık)
• Korean: 산과학(産科學) (ko) (san'gwahak)
• Malay: obstetrik (ms)
• Polish: położnictwo (pl) n, akuszeria (pl) f (dated), akuszerstwo (pl) n (dated)
• Portuguese: obstetrícia (pt) f
• Romanian: obstetrică (ro) f
• Russian: акуше́рство (ru) n (akušérstvo), родовспоможе́ние (ru) n (rodovspomožénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: акушерство n
• Spanish: obstetricia (es) f
• Swedish: obstetrik (sv) c, förlossningskonst c
• Thai: สูติศาสตร์ (th)
• Turkish: obstetrik (tr)
• Vietnamese: sản khoa học
• Welsh: obstetreg f
• Yiddish: אָבסטעטריק f (obstetrik)