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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

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

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an ob-gyn in Indiana, told the paper about seeing this patient, who was 6 weeks pregnant.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2022

Lisa Harris, an ob-gyn and researcher at the University of Michigan, recalls being paged to the operating room late on a Friday night to treat a pregnant woman who was hemorrhaging uncontrollably.

From Scientific American • Jun. 29, 2022

Maldonado had been sharing his lab results and X-rays with his girlfriend, Dr. Katherine Auwarter, an ob-gyn resident in Greenville, S.C., and now he texted her that he was being admitted to the I.C.U.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

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