obstetricaladj.

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4064 The Accidents accompanying the working away of this Stone, (for the incision was meerly obstetrical,) and the place of its birth give occasion to call the distemper a Ranula.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Obstetrical, belonging to midwifery, befitting a midwife.

1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iii. 18 They spawn like frogs; but what is singular, the male affords the female obstetrical aid [etc.].

1822 Ld. Byron Let. 4 May (1979) IX. 154 Mr. Murray has several things of mine in his obstetrical hands.

1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 2 Peculiarities, which, in an obstetrical point of view, as well as anatomically, are worthy of consideration.

1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 13 Of much interest to the obstetrical student.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 269 In surgical and obstetrical practice.

1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 1013/1 Even if the obstetrical aid of the workers is necessary,..any position for the commensal puparium, except at the posterior pole of the cocoon, might be fatal.

1933 Science 29 Sept. 276/1 In obstetrical cases, provision is made for prenatal and postnatal care, and exercise of ‘due caution’ that undue risk be not involved to patients for whom hospital care may be imperative.

1976 Sci. Amer. June 128/2 They [sc. male mites] facilitate the birth of their sisters by obstetrical intervention, pulling them out through the sack opening.

1992 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Birth iii. vii. 122 Forceps rotation, he explained, is the technique of using obstetrical forceps to turn the baby's head.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 24 Feb. 26/3 A New Jersey OB/GYN, pole-axed by the astronomical cost of malpractice insurance,..raised her obstetrical rates from $3,000 to $5,000.

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 138 The young of the obstetrical toad dancing on the nose of their mother in extravagant attitudes.

1935 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 22 776 He treated..the overwintered larvae of Alytes, a genus of obstetrical toads.

1955 Systematic Zool. 4 106/2 The mating behavior of the obstetrical toad, Alytes obstetricans, has been detailed by De L'Isle de Dreneuf (1876).

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xiii. 415 In males of such anurans as Alytes, the ‘obstetrical toad’, and of the common newt Triturus, these tubules have joined to form a single duct draining the enitre kidney.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xi. 70 Art thou aware that..a daughter of Lucina is put obstetrically over thy head?

a1868 C. Harpur Like Cases in Poet. Wks. (1984) 602 No doubt your hand's obstetrically skilful And potent to unload a desperate feeder too.

1872 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 299 These powers, not by creation, or invention, or making of any kind, but simply obstetrically, gave birth to primitive speech.

1944 Sci. Monthly July 60/1 Obstetrically, the most dangerous form of the pelvis is the android type which occurs with double the frequency among whites that it does among Negroes.

1980 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 17/4 We must decide whether attention to what is sociologically, psychologically and emotionally desirable or to the best interests of mother and baby are best served by what is obstetrically safe.