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Midwifery   Listen
noun
Midwifery  n.  
1.
The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
2.
Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.





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"Midwifery" Quotes from Famous Books



... education, and the fair sex being in general the most sympathising part of the creation, and most immediately concerned in the health and care of its offspring, I think myself bound in gratitude to you, ladies, for the partiality you have shewn me in midwifery, to contribute, as far as lies in my power, to render you additionally useful and valuable to the community. With this view I propose forming my Hygeian Society, to be incorporated with that of Paris. As soon as twenty ladies have given in their names, the day ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay


Words linked to "Midwifery" :   presentation, induction of labor, perinatology, nullipara, para I, foetology, primipara, fetology, obstetrics, gravida I, medical specialty, quadripara, medicine, delivery


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