accoucheur
noun
a person who assists during childbirth, especially an obstetrician.
accoucheurs
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pluralof accoucheur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
As an accident of pregnancy, it is far fram uncommon, although its relative frequency'' as compared with that of completed gestation, has been very differently estimated by accoucheurs.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
That factory operatives undergo more difficult confinement than other women is testified to by several midwives and accoucheurs, and also that they are more liable to miscarriage.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
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
