英语词汇“midwifery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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midwifery

释义

midwifery|ˈmɪdwaɪfrɪ, ˈmɪdwɪfrɪ, ˈmɪdɪfrɪ|
Also 5 medewifry, 6 midwifrey, -rie, 6–8 midwifry.
[f. midwife n. + -ery.]
The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; the department of medical knowledge relating to this; obstetrics.
1483Cath. Angl. 232/2 To be Medwyfe (MS. A. to do Medewifry), obstetricare.1570Levins Manip. 105/10 Midwifery, obstetricium.a1673Caryl in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxix. 9 He..shows his midwifery in helping these savage beasts when their pains come upon them.1799Med. Jrnl. II. 191 Dr. Osborn and Dr. Clarke propose to begin their lectures on the principles and practice of midwifery.1845McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 361 The professors of Pathology,..Midwifery, and Clinical Medicine, receive no fixed salaries.1900H. G. Graham Soc. Life Scotl. in 18th C. xiii. ii. (1901) 481 note, Midwifery was practised entirely by women.
fig.1597Pilgr. Parnass. i. 35 What wisedom manie winters hath begott Tyme's midwifrey at length shall bringe to light.a1707Stepney To Earl of Carlisle 61 So hasty fruits, and too ambitious flowers, Scorning the midwifery of ripening showers,..spring from th' unwilling earth.
b. attrib.
1791J. Jones in Beddoes Calculus (1793) 30 Upon the principle of Smellie's midwifry forceps.1799Med. Jrnl. I. 81 The midwifery-wards in the house.1829Gooch Acc. Some Dis. Women 75 A general practitioner, in large midwifery practice.1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 282 The ordinary midwifery forceps.

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