plural ob-gyns
: a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology
obstetrics-gynecology
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
His father was an ob-gyn and expected Peter to follow his path.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Less lactobacilli throws off your vagina’s pH and opens the door for harmful bacteria to take hold and overgrow, Karen E. Adams, MD, an ob-gyn and menopause specialist at the Stanford Health Care Gynecology Clinic and director of the Stanford Program in Menopause & Healthy Aging, tells SELF.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 1 Aug. 2025
My ob-gyn at Cedars-Sinai, who had been by my side through the ups and downs of pregnancy, sounded uncharacteristically tense.
—Angie Jaime, Vogue, 30 July 2025
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Emani Ellis claimed Cardi, then pregnant with her first of three kids with Offset, scratched her face and spat on her during an argument outside the star’s ob-gyn’s office.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
His father was an ob-gyn and expected Peter to follow his path.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Less lactobacilli throws off your vagina’s pH and opens the door for harmful bacteria to take hold and overgrow, Karen E. Adams, MD, an ob-gyn and menopause specialist at the Stanford Health Care Gynecology Clinic and director of the Stanford Program in Menopause & Healthy Aging, tells SELF.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 1 Aug. 2025
My ob-gyn at Cedars-Sinai, who had been by my side through the ups and downs of pregnancy, sounded uncharacteristically tense.
—Angie Jaime, Vogue, 30 July 2025
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“Ob-gyn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ob-gyn. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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ob-gyn
1 of 2 noun
plural ob-gyns
: a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology
OB-GYN
2 of 2 abbreviation
obstetrics-gynecology
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