The profession or practice of assisting women in childbirth.
a course in practical nursing and midwifery
Example sentencesExamples
He was already the author of a successful treatise on midwifery.
The takeover of midwifery by men beginning at the end of the 17th century has been interpreted in various ways.
A physician holding himself in readiness to attend cases of midwifery should never take part in the postmortem examination of cases of puerperal fever.
Being a female studying conducting remains more rare than being a male studying midwifery.
He championed a noninterventionist approach to midwifery.
His skill in learning and aptitude for science took him to Edinburgh University where he became professor of midwifery.
At the same time, the government was encouraging the training of young women as nurses with a bias toward midwifery and village work.
The text is concerned primarily with practices of midwifery that remained detached from anatomical investigations of the body.
Training courses for social work, business and management, and nursing and midwifery are also available.
Additional home visits by postnatal support workers conferred no health benefit over traditional midwifery for women, regardless of the type of delivery.
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Definition of midwifery in US English:
midwifery
nounˈmidˌwīf(ə)rē
The profession or practice of assisting women in childbirth.
a course in practical nursing and midwifery
Example sentencesExamples
Training courses for social work, business and management, and nursing and midwifery are also available.
He was already the author of a successful treatise on midwifery.
His skill in learning and aptitude for science took him to Edinburgh University where he became professor of midwifery.
He championed a noninterventionist approach to midwifery.
The takeover of midwifery by men beginning at the end of the 17th century has been interpreted in various ways.
The text is concerned primarily with practices of midwifery that remained detached from anatomical investigations of the body.
Being a female studying conducting remains more rare than being a male studying midwifery.
At the same time, the government was encouraging the training of young women as nurses with a bias toward midwifery and village work.
Additional home visits by postnatal support workers conferred no health benefit over traditional midwifery for women, regardless of the type of delivery.
A physician holding himself in readiness to attend cases of midwifery should never take part in the postmortem examination of cases of puerperal fever.