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midwifery
/ˈmɪdˌwaɪfəɹi/
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What does midwifery mean?
noun
- The practice and science of being a midwife.
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Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
However, Pompey let me up; above were fires blazing, and a good old gentlewoman, whose occupation easily spoke itself to be midwifery.
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Farquharson has an account of a singular case in midwifery in which abdomen ruptured from the pressure of the fetus; and quite recently Geoghegan illustrates the possibilities of uterine pressure in pregnancy by a postmortem examination after a fatal parturition, in which the stomach was found pushed through the diaphragm and lying under the left clavicle.