midwife
noun /ˈmɪdwaɪf/
/ˈmɪdwaɪf/
(plural midwives
/ˈmɪdwaɪvz/
/ˈmɪdwaɪvz/
)- a person, especially a woman, who is trained to help women give birth to babies
助产士；接生员；产婆 WordfinderTopics Medicinec2, Jobsc2, Life stagesc2- birth
- breech birth
- caesarean section
- contraction
- deliver
- induce
- labour
- midwife
- obstetrics
- umbilical cord
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- certified nurse
- qualified
- registered
- …
- deliver a baby
- attend a birth
词源Middle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid ‘with’ + wife (in the archaic sense ‘woman’), expressing the sense ‘a woman who is with (the mother)’.