MIDWIVES Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

midwives

noun

plural of midwife

as in obstetricians

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Noun

Traditionally, obstetricians were required to be on call when their patients went into labor.

— Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Imagine if obstetricians could identify during pregnancy which women were at high risk for severe postpartum depression.

— Jamie Maguire, STAT, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of obstetricians

Noun

Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel and his brothers Zeke and Rahm have donated $550,000 towards a program to train Palestinian doctors from the West Bank at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
Knight claimed that Afeni allegedly gave her son pills to end his life, though doctors brought him back.

— Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of doctors

Noun

Patients, doulas, and physicians are often responding to different versions of the same birth.

— Debra Eluobaju, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
The plan includes several standalone offices for physicians, specialty medical groups, and health systems, tink Crescent said Thursday.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of physicians

Noun

Harper said the driver was unresponsive, and the officer removed the driver and began to perform CPR until Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District medics arrived.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
The garden and museum honor military veterans, firefighters, law enforcement officers, medics, and service animals.

— Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of medics

Noun

ProPublica gathered death records from coroners and police in five Idaho counties and shared them with more than a dozen pediatricians and birthing specialists.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
Parents are increasingly asking pediatricians to delay, space out, or altogether forgo immunizations for their children.

— Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of pediatricians

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The company has previously provided production services on Mobland and The Agency, but to this point has been known for docs and factual shows such as The Footballer, His Wife and the Crash, Death in the Heartlands and The Footballer Fraudster.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Others are likely to follow in his footsteps, because docs about the worst day of someone’s life and the terrible things people do to one another is a genre of entertainment that audiences can’t get enough of.

— Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of docs

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