(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.
(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.