plural ob-gyns
: a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology

OB-GYN

2 of 2

abbreviation

obstetrics-gynecology

Examples of ob-gyn in a Sentence

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Noun
Munn's lifesaving diagnosis was due to her ob-gyn’s decision to calculate her lifetime breast cancer risk score during a routing Pap smear using a free online tool called a Tyrer-Cuzick risk assessment calculator. Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024 Still, the arrival of male contraception is unlikely to dampen women’s enthusiasm for using their own methods, Allison Merz, an ob-gyn at UC San Francisco, told me. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024 This puts emergency physicians, ob-gyn doctors and pregnant patients with serious complications in a precarious position. Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy. Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024 Sometimes, though, there’s an issue at hand that warrants a trip to an ob-gyn or primary care provider. Mara Santilli, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024 The hospital’s labor-and-delivery unit closed years ago, and there is no ob-gyn on site. Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Thanks to federal and state parity laws, most insurance companies can’t charge you a much higher co-pay to see a therapist than to see a medical doctor, like a primary care physician or ob-gyn, the HHS explains. Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024 One of the most notable GOP losses of the night was a Republican state senator who works as an ob-gyn. Rick Klein, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

from earlier ob-gyn (noun or abbreviation) "obstetrics and gynecology," from ob(stetrics) + gyn(ecology)

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1960, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ob-gyn was circa 1960

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“Ob-gyn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ob-gyn. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

Medical Definition

plural ob-gyns
: a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology

OB-GYN

2 of 2 abbreviation
obstetrics-gynecology

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