obstetricadj.

1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 386 There all the Learn'd shall at the labour stand, And D––gl––s lend his soft, obstetric hand.

c1750 W. Shenstone To Virtuosi vii Tis you protect their pregnant hour;..Exerting your obstetric pow'r.

1793 R. Rawlins (title) A Dissertation on the structure of the obstetric forceps.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 453 The obstetric art..began to emerge from its barbarity during the sixteenth century.

1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Gentleman & his Wife in Wks. II. 45 Now came the time when mistress in the straw Did, for the world's support, her screams prepare; And Slop appear'd with fair obstetric paw, To introduce his pupil to our air.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 260 Paul of Ægina, the father of obstetric surgery.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 582 In obstetric works..cases are recorded.

1937 H. G. Wells Camford Visitation ii. 13 At length.., with considerable obstetric assistance from the vicar of St Hippolytus, Trumber produced his story.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1330/2 There was no significant association with primiparity or with past obstetric complications.

1979 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 Mar. 1245/3 The mothers in the two groups proved to be comparable in age..and obstetric procedures (ie, induction of labor and cesarean section).

1989 Nursing Standard 27 Sept. 50/1 Present day midwifery care is essentially within the obstetric team setting.

2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts v. 119 Yet accoucheurs also possessed, unlike the midwife, surgical instruments, above all the new obstetric forceps, for use in difficult labours and emergencies.