obstetrician

Noun

obstetrician (plural obstetricians)

1. A physician who specializes in childbirth.
   • The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller...2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective
   • “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

   Synonyms:

   obstetrist, tocologist