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語源

From Medical Latin obstetricus (“belonging to a midwife”), from Latin obstētrīx (“midwife”).

発音

• IPA: /əbˈstɛtɹɪk/

形容詞

obstetric (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to obstetrics (the care of women during and after pregnancy).

   obstetric clinic

   • 2020 March 19, Helen Lewis, “The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism”, in The Atlantic‎:

     For Wenham, the most striking statistic from Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, was that from 2013 to 2016, during the outbreak, more women died of obstetric complications than the infectious disease itself.

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