单词 | monitrice |
释义 | monitricen. A woman who gives guidance and support during pregnancy and labour; an accoucheuse or midwife. Cf. doula n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > one skilled in obstetrics or midwifery > [noun] midwifec1300 childwifea1387 midwomana1400 Lucinac1405 matron?a1425 grace-wifec1600 Mother Midnight1602 headswoman1615 handwoman1637 sage woman1672 howdie1725 accoucheur1727 granny1738 obstetrix1773 accoucheuse1795 dukun1817 fingersmith1819 wise woman1821 obstetrician1826 obstetrist1873 tocologist1902 birth attendant1910 S.C.M.1935 monitrice1969 1969 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 69 1446 (title) Natural childbirth—nurses in private practice as monitrices. 1972 E. Bing in N. Morris Psychosomatic Med. in Obstetr. & Gynæcol. 71 Soon our first psychoprophylactically trained women gave birth, and our teachers had to become monitrices in order to assist the young mother in labour and delivery. 1984 J. Updike Witches of Eastwick i. 109 Ozzie and I did the whole natural-childbirth thing... With the last two babies we didn't even have a doctor, we had a monitrice. 1992 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Birth iii. v. 99 The Lamaze ‘monitrice’-cum-labor/delivery nurse..was no help and spent most of the time sleeping. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1969 |
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