What's the difference between accoucheur and childbirth?

Accoucheur


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Worthy accoucheurs will have planned for this event and will have selected from the numerous procedures touted for its correction that group he or she intuitively feels will be most effective or, at a minimum, most easily remembered.
  • (2) All normal patients had the privilege of choosing their accoucheur; patients, nurse-midwives, and obstetricians were very well pleased with the team approach.
  • (3) Since thyrotoxicosis had affected the patient last year, he had had attacks of flaccid paralysis of the limbs associated with main d'accoucheur.
  • (4) After this he became an obstetrician studying with his master, a friend of his father, Julien Clément, accoucheur to the Court.
  • (5) The administration of glucose, insulin, and KCl also provoked attacks of paralysis with main d'accoucheur or main d'accoucheur.
  • (6) A main d'accoucheur was induced in one hand by cooling it in chilled water.
  • (7) There were no statistical differences in apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes with regard to the routes of delivery, different fetal birthweights and obstetrical experience of the accoucheur.
  • (8) Unfortunately, the physician-accoucheurs who were responsible for the new development soon gave way to surgeon-gynaecologists, and for the next half century newborn infants returned to the care of the nursery nurse.
  • (9) The patient had had episodes of main d'accoucheur for eight years.

Childbirth


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (2) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
  • (3) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
  • (4) Burns account for 9 per cent of the deaths occurring to women aged 15-49, and were the third cause of death (after disease of the circulatory system and complications of pregnancy and childbirth).
  • (5) This loss of neural regulation may result from mechanical damage to the pelvic nerves due to childbirth or pelvic surgery, exposure to environmental toxins (e.g., organochlorine insecticides or heavy metals), or possibly exposure to an infectious agent.
  • (6) She campaigns against deaths in childbirth and goes to Glastonbury with Naomi Campbell.
  • (7) Strategies for enhancing care involve using childbirth and sibling classes, modifying health care and information from primary care providers, mobilizing supportive services and resources, and influencing policies to meet maternal and family needs.
  • (8) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
  • (9) Ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic energy therapies are increasingly used for perineal trauma sustained during childbirth.
  • (10) However, important cultural differentials exist in the medical services sought for childbirth and in the treatment of morbidity in children of different ages and sexes.
  • (11) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
  • (12) Contraceptive information is in special demand among women having abortions, women after childbirth, and youth.
  • (13) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
  • (14) A 50.8% reduction in childbirth was found in the study group, although 77% of families had decided against further high-risk pregnancies.
  • (15) Third, women do not attempt to assess the probabilities of particular outcomes, but instead construct mental images of anticipated events based upon past childbirth experience and expected consequences of the preferred course of action.
  • (16) In the case of a curable cause the childbirth should take place near a well equipped neonatology department, with a neonatal intensive care unit and surgical possibilities.
  • (17) A number of factors seem likely to be important in the aetiology of the condition in Milne Bay Province, including infection associated with previous childbirth and abortion.
  • (18) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
  • (19) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
  • (20) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.