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OB-Gyne

/ˌoʊ.biˈɡaɪ.niː/

OB-Gyne is the alternative form of OB-GYN.

Meaning of OB-GYN

Noun

OB-GYN (countable and uncountable, plural OB-GYNs)

  1. (Canada, US, abbreviation, acronym, informal, initialism) Obstetrics and gynecology.
    • He was a doctor; she was a nurse. She assumed he was the authority on this part of the body. “I never worked in OB-GYN before,” said Gillian, who asked to be identified by her first name to protect her privacy. “I was pretty clueless.”2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times
  2. (Canada, US, abbreviation, acronym, countable, initialism) A physician in these specialties; an obstetrician-gynecologist.
  3. (Canada, US, abbreviation, acronym, countable, initialism) (prefixed with the) A clinic or doctor's office with these specialties.

Forms of OB-Gyne

pluralOB-Gynes

Questions about OB-Gyne

What is OB-Gyne the alternative form of?
OB-Gyne is the alternative form of OB-GYN.
How do you pronounce OB-Gyne?
OB-Gyne is pronounced /ˌoʊ.biˈɡaɪ.niː/.

Words near OB-Gyne in the dictionary

  1. OB marker
  2. OB markers
  3. Ob'
  4. ob-
  5. ob-gyn
  6. OB-Gyne
  7. OB-Gynes
  8. ob-gyns
  9. Ob-Ugrian
  10. Ob-Ugric
  11. ob.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OB-Gyne (page history and authors); OB-GYN (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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