Look up: midwifery

1. midwifery
   [n] - assisting women at childbirth
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2. Midwifery
   Midwives provide education and support during pregnancy, assist the mother during labor and delivery and provide follow-up care. Practitioners of childbirth support include childbirth educators, childbirth assistants and women labor coaches who also provide post-partum home care.
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3. Midwifery
   a profession concerned with providing care to a mother and baby during pregnancy and childbirth
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4. Midwifery
   Mid'wife`ry noun 1. The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics. 2. Assistance at childbirth; help or coöperation in production.
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5. midwifery
   1. The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics. ... 2. Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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6. midwifery
   noun assisting women at childbirth
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7. midwifery
   (mid´wif-re) (mid´wi-fәr-e) the practice of assisting at childbirth.
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8. Midwifery
   • (n.) Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production. • (n.) The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
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9. midwifery
   the art and practice of attending upon women in childbirth. The profession of midwife must be one of the oldest, being clearly recognized in the ... [3 related articles]
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10. midwifery
    midwifery (mid'wī"furē) , art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient Greece and Rome, these women had some formal training. As the medical arts declined during medieval times, h...
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11. midwifery
    Type: Term Pronunciation: mid-wif′ĕ-rē Definitions: 1. Independent care of essentially normal, healthy women and infants by a midwife, prepartally, intrapartally, postpartally, and/or obstetrically in a hospital, birth center, or home setting, and including normal delivery of the inf...
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12. midwifery
    Assistance of women in childbirth. Traditionally, it was undertaken by experienced specialists; in modern medical training it is a nursing speciality for practitioners called midwives. (See also obstetrics.) The English physician William Harvey's 1653 work on generation contained an influential chapter on labour. Dr Peter Chamberlen II (156...
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