Word.ws English Dictionary

obstetrician-gynecologist

obstetrician-gynecologist noun: a physician specializing in the medical and surgical care of the female reproductive system, pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period; commonly abbreviated as OB-GYN.

Noun

obstetrician-gynecologist (plural obstetrician-gynecologists)

  1. (Canada, US, countable) A physician specializing in the medical and surgical care of the female reproductive system, pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period; commonly abbreviated as OB-GYN.
    • The town had only one obstetrician-gynecologist.

Synonyms of obstetrician-gynecologist

Forms of obstetrician-gynecologist

pluralobstetrician-gynecologists
alternative formOB-GYN

Origin of obstetrician-gynecologist

From obstetrician + gynecologist.

Questions about obstetrician-gynecologist

What does obstetrician-gynecologist mean?
Obstetrician-gynecologist means a physician specializing in the medical and surgical care of the female reproductive system, pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period; commonly abbreviated as OB-GYN.
What part of speech is obstetrician-gynecologist?
Obstetrician-gynecologist is a noun.
What is the plural of obstetrician-gynecologist?
The plural of obstetrician-gynecologist is obstetrician-gynecologists.

Words near obstetrician-gynecologist in the dictionary

  1. obstetricated
  2. obstetricates
  3. obstetricating
  4. obstetrication
  5. obstetrician
  6. obstetrician-gynecologist
  7. obstetrician-gynecologists
  8. obstetricians
  9. obstetricious
  10. obstetricist
  11. obstetricists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: obstetrician-gynecologist (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “obstetrician-gynecologist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/obstetrician-gynecologist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.