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midwifery

/ˈmɪdˌwaɪfəɹi/

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What does midwifery mean?

noun

  1. The practice and science of being a midwife.

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/ˈmɪdˌwaɪfəɹi/

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Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
However, Pompey let me up; above were fires blazing, and a good old gentlewoman, whose occupation easily spoke itself to be midwifery.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
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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.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747