obstetrics

Japanese: obstetrics
obstetrics

...a branch of clinical medicine. In the early days of the field, gynecology and obstetrics developed separately. The prefixes gyneco- and gyne- in gynecology mean related to women, so etymologically, gynecology can be said to be a field that studies the whole of women. However, at the beginning, it was considered to deal with abnormalities in the function and shape of the female genitals (including the mammary glands) by organ. Furthermore, the phenomena of pregnancy and childbirth have unique aspects as reproductive departments, and in the past, experienced women performed midwifery, so they tended to be treated separately from gynecology.

*Some terminology explanations that mention "obstetrics" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…臨床医学の一分野。学問の成立初期には,婦人科学と産科学とは別々に発達してきた。婦人科学gynecologyのgyneco‐,gyne‐というのは,女性にかかわるという意味の接頭語であるから,語源的にいうと,婦人科学は婦人全体を研究の対象とする学問であるともいえる。しかし出発点においては,臓器別に婦人性器(乳腺を含む)の機能,形態の異常を取り扱うものとされた。そして妊娠,出産という現象は,生殖部門として独特の面があり,昔は経験のある婦人が助産をしていたため,婦人科学とは別個に取り扱われる傾向にあった。…

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