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obstetrics

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /əbˈstɛ.trɪks/
  • General-American: /ɑbˈstɛ.trɪks/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AH0 B S T EH1 T R IH0 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The care of women during and after pregnancy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: OB, tocology, midwifery

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: medicine, medical specialty

Narrower terms: fetology, foetology, perinatology

History

Etymology

From obstetric.

Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: մանկաբարձություն (mankabarjutʻyun) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Bulgarian: акушерство (akušerstvo) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Catalan: obstetrícia — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 產科學 /产科学 (chǎnkēxué) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 助產術 /助产术 (zhùchǎnshù) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Czech: porodnictví — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Danish: obstetrik — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Dutch: verloskunde — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Esperanto: akuŝologio — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Esperanto: obstetriko — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Faroese: nærfrøði — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Finnish: synnytysoppi — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Finnish: obstetriikka — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • French: obstétrique — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • German: Geburtshilfe — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • German: Obstetrik — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Greek: οβστετρική (ovstetrikí) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Hungarian: szülészet — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Ido: akusharto — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Indonesian: obstetri — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Indonesian: kandungan — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Irish: cnáimhseachas — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Italian: ostetricia — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Japanese: 産科学 (sankagaku) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Kazakh: акушерлік (akuşerlık) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Korean: 산과학 (san'gwahak) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Malay: obstetrik — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Polish: położnictwo — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Polish: akuszeria — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Polish: akuszerstwo — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Portuguese: obstetrícia — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Romanian: obstetrică — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Russian: акуше́рство (akušérstvo) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Russian: родовспоможе́ние (rodovspomožénije) — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Serbo-Croatian: акушерство — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Spanish: obstetricia — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Swedish: obstetrik — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Swedish: förlossningskonst — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Thai: สูติศาสตร์ — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Turkish: obstetrik — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Vietnamese: sản khoa học — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Welsh: obstetreg — care of women during and after pregnancy
  • Yiddish: אָבסטעטריק (obstetrik) — care of women during and after pregnancy