HOW TO PRONOUNCE
obstetrics
/əbˈstɛtɹɪks/
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Stress “stet” and keep the opening cluster clear.
Use three syllables, beginning with a light vowel followed by b and s. Keep the final ks sequence together without adding a vowel after the last consonant.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The directory lists the obstetrics department.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does obstetrics mean?
noun
- The care of women during and after pregnancy.
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IPA pronunciation
/əbˈstɛtɹɪks/
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It is well known to physicians who practice obstetrics that the kidneys fail in their work more frequently during the winter than the summer.
Our cross-examination disclosed that she knew a good many facts about obstetrics, in which she said she had had training, and about the cities where she said she had lived.
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Here are the Scotch clergy of the middle of the nineteenth century denouncing the use of chloroform in obstetrics, because it is seeking "to avoid one part of the primeval curse on woman".
In consequence of this atmosphere of Calvinism in the cultured world of to-day, it is apparently necessary to begin all arguments on education with some mention of obstetrics and the unknown world of the prenatal.
This abnormalism has been known almost as long as there has been any real knowledge of obstetrics.