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obs.

obs. is the abbreviation of obstetrics.

obs. is the alternative form of obs.

Meaning of obstetrics

Noun

obstetrics (uncountable)

  1. The care of women during and after pregnancy.
    • A pilot study conducted in 2023 by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Erlangen University Hospital in Germany involved 104 patients and concluded that clinical breast examinations by MTEs who were visually impaired were as accurate in identifying potentially cancerous tumors as...2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPR

Meaning of obs

Noun

obs (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Police observation.
    • But I now knew I was under obs by the Gardai as well as by GMP.2017, Jimmy Donnelly, Jimmy The Weed: Inside the Quality Street Gang
    Synonyms:
    obbo
  2. An observation hut.

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Questions about obs.

What is obs. the abbreviation of?
Obs. is the abbreviation of obstetrics.

Words near obs. in the dictionary

  1. obruption
  2. obrution
  3. obrutions
  4. obs
  5. obs and gynae
  6. obs.
  7. obsagittate
  8. obscene
  9. obscenely
  10. obsceneness
  11. obscener

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obs. (page history and authors); obstetrics (page history and authors); obs (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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