nurse-midwife
[nurs-mid-wahyf]
|
noun, plural nurse-mid·wives.
a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for nurse-midwife
Contemporary Examples of nurse-midwife
There she studied nursing and midwifery, and came back home in 1961 as the first qualified Somali nurse-midwife.
nurse-midwife
n.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.