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ob-gyn

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[oh-bee-jee-wahy-en] / ˈoʊˈbiˈdʒiˌwaɪˈɛn /
Or ob/gyn,
  1. obstetrical-gynecological.

  2. obstetrician-gynecologist.

  3. obstetrics and gynecology.


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Aldó, played by Károly Hajduk, is a wiry, disheveled figure with benevolent eyes and a haunted air, whose entire life is his ob-gyn practice since losing his family in the camps.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

"We're already talking about switching over to Misoprostol-only regimens," Dr. Kristyn Brandi, an ob-gyn who serves as the board chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health, told Salon.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023

“We were excited,” says Alan Tita, an ob-gyn at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the study’s lead author.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2023

One more thing, Kelce’s wife Kylie is pregnant and the couple is bringing their ob-gyn to Arizona just in case.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Our well-intentioned ob-gyn initially accepted the result, failing to recognize that the test’s false positive rate was around 95 percent.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2022

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