accoucheur
Americannoun
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accoucheurs
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of accoucheur
From French, dating back to 1750–60; see origin at accouchement, -eur
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Once an accoucheur, the patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paulus wrote a famous book on obstetrics, which is now lost, but it gained for him among the Arabs the title of "the accoucheur."
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
Sir Richard Croft, a fashionable accoucheur of that time, was in attendance upon her with other physicians.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
However, they do not always succeed by themselves, and in this case the accoucheur is obliged to apply the forceps to extract the head of the child.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
Love-philtres were also regarded from a medicinal point of view, and the strange doings of quack accoucheurs are not less absurdly terrible.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
It gave her a large following in Germany as well as in France, and there were not wanting distinguished German accoucheurs who followed Mme.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
Analogous to this is what the accoucheurs call spondylolisthesis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Many other reasons can be enumerated pregnant with complications and above all when Lincoln-Seward are the accoucheurs.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
Some accoucheurs have had a practice of introducing their hand into the uterus immediately after the birth of the child, to take away the placenta; which they said was to save time.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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