gynaecologist

See also: gynæcologist

English

Alternative forms

• gynecologist (US, Canada)

Etymology

From gynaecology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɡaɪ.nəˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɡaɪ.nəˈkɑː.lə.dʒɪst/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

gynaecologist (plural gynaecologists)

1. (Australia, British spelling, Commonwealth) (Canadian spelling, also common) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
   • 1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56:

     In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.

   • 1969, Canadian House of Commons, Debates, Official Report‎^[1], page 8287:

     Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.

   • 1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 12, page 194:

     During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).

   • 1984, British House of Commons, Parliamentary debates (Hansard)‎^[2], page 345:

     According to the Bill, from the moment that the embryo insertion has been completed, the authority for the gynaecologist to have an embryo in his possession immediately and automatically ends.

   • 1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287:

     Mr Shikuku: […] Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?
     Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.

   • 2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,

     With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.

Synonyms

• gynie (diminutive)

Translations

specialist in diseases of the female reproductive system

• Arabic: طَبِيب نِسَاء m (ṭabīb nisāʔ)
• Armenian: գինեկոլոգ (hy) (ginekolog)
• Asturian: xinecólogu m, xinecóloga f
• Basque: ginekologo
• Belarusian: гінеко́лаг m (hinjekólah)
• Catalan: ginecòleg m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 婦科醫生 / 妇科医生 (fùkē yīshēng)

• Czech: gynekolog (cs) m
• Danish: gynækolog c
• Dutch: gynaecoloog (nl) m, gynaecologe (nl) f, vrouwenarts (nl) m
• Esperanto: ginekologo
• Finnish: gynekologi (fi), naistentautilääkäri
• French: gynécologue (fr)
• Galician: xinecólogo m
• German: Gynäkologe (de) m, Gynäkologin (de) f, Frauenarzt (de) m, Frauenärztin (de) f, Frauenheilkundler m, Frauenheilkundlerin f
• Greek: γυναικολόγος (el) m or f (gynaikológos)
• Greenlandic: arnat nappaataannut nakorsaq
• Hungarian: nőorvos (hu), nőgyógyász (hu)
• Icelandic: kvensjúkdómalæknir (is) m, kvenlæknir (is) m
• Ido: ginekologo (io)
• Irish: lia ban m
• Italian: ginecologo (it) m, ginecologa (it) f
• Japanese: 婦人科医 (ja) (ふじんかい, fujinkai)
• Malay: pakar sakit puan
• Maltese: ġineloġista
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gynekolog m, kvinnelege

  Nynorsk: gynekolog m, kvinnelege

• Persian: دکتر زنان (doktor-e zanân), پزشک زنان (fa) (pezešk-e zanân)
• Polish: ginekolog (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: ginecologista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: ginecolog (ro) m, ginecologă (ro) f (rare)
• Russian: гинеко́лог (ru) m (ginekólog) (male or female)
• Scottish Gaelic: lèigh-eòlaich bhan m (male or female)
• Spanish: ginecólogo (es), ginecóloga f
• Swahili: daktari wa wanawake
• Swedish: gynekolog (sv) c
• Thai: นรีแพทย์ (th)
• Turkish: jinekolog (tr), nisaiyeci (tr)
• Ukrainian: гінеко́лог m (hinekóloh) (male or female)
• Volapük: vomasanan
• Welsh: gynaecolegydd m (male or female)
• West Frisian: gynekolooch
• Yiddish: גיינאַקאַלאַדזשאַסט m or f (geynakaladzhast)