Obstetrics

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: obstetrics and gynaecology.
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Obstetrics is the medical speciality that deals with helping a woman during pregnancy and childbirth. It is part of gynaecology.

  • Two midwives assisting a woman in labour on a birth chair in the 16th century, from a work by Eucharius Rößlin.
  • Leopold's maneuvers
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