obstetrics

See also: obstètrics

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From obstetric.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

obstetrics (uncountable)

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

   Coordinate term: gynecology

Derived terms

• OB-GYN

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: 產科さんか學がく／产科学かがく (chǎnkēxué), 助產じょさん術じゅつ／助じょ产术 (zhùchǎnshù)

• Czech: porodnictví (cs) n
• Danish: obstetrik (da) c
• Esperanto: akuŝologio, obstetriko
• Esperanto: akuŝologio
• Faroese: nærfrøði f
• Finnish: synnytysoppi (fi), obstetriikka (fi)
• French: obstétrique (fr) f
• German: Geburtshilfe (de) f, Obstetrik (de) f
• Hungarian: szülészet (hu)
• Ido: akusharto
• Indonesian: obstetri (id), kandungan (id)
• Irish: cnáimhseachas m
• Japanese: 産科さんか学がく (さんかがく, sankagaku)
• Korean: 산과학 (ko) (san'gwahak)
• Malay: obstetrik
• 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
• Yiddish: אָבסטעטריק f (obstetrik)