gynecology
noun
gy·ne·col·o·gy ˌgī-nə-ˈkä-lə-jē 
ˌji-
ˌji- : a branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and routine physical care of the reproductive system of women
gynecologic
ˌgī-ni-kə-ˈlä-jik ˌji-
adjective ˌji- or gynecological
ˌgī-ni-kə-ˈlä-ji-kəl ˌji-
ˌji- 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Alexandra Chetty, a second-year medical student at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been fascinated by obstetrics and gynecology since her first semester of medical school. 
Sara Hutchinson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022 On a Monday morning, a group of obstetrics and gynecology residents, dressed in blue scrubs and white coats, gathered in an auditorium at Indiana University School of Medicine. Farah Yousry, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 Under the 20th-century eugenics policies, University of Michigan obstetrics and gynecology professor Alexandra Minna Stern found, about 60,000 people underwent compulsory sterilizations nationwide. USA Today, 11 Aug. 2022 Among the professions likely to be most deeply affected is medicine, especially in the obstetrics and gynecology fields. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022 No matter what the issue is, this is a really common problem, Mary Jane Minkin, MD, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale Medical School, tells SELF. Casey Gueren, SELF, 26 July 2022 It was ranked 29th for diabetes and endocrinology; 30th in the U.S. for cancer care; 36th in neurology and neurosurgery; 45th in orthopedics; 41st for gastroenterology surgery and gastrointestinal surgery; and 47th in obstetrics and gynecology. Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2022 Ear, nose and throat. Gastroenterology and GI surgery. Geriatrics. Obstetrics and gynecology. Neurology and neurosurgery. Orthopedics. Pulmonology and lung surgery. Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 26 July 2022 In typical early miscarriages, when cardiac activity has stopped, patients should be offered three options to expel tissue, said Dr. Sarah Prager, an obstetrics and gynecology professor at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. New York Times, 17 July 2022 See More
Sara Hutchinson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022 On a Monday morning, a group of obstetrics and gynecology residents, dressed in blue scrubs and white coats, gathered in an auditorium at Indiana University School of Medicine. Farah Yousry, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 Under the 20th-century eugenics policies, University of Michigan obstetrics and gynecology professor Alexandra Minna Stern found, about 60,000 people underwent compulsory sterilizations nationwide. USA Today, 11 Aug. 2022 Among the professions likely to be most deeply affected is medicine, especially in the obstetrics and gynecology fields. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022 No matter what the issue is, this is a really common problem, Mary Jane Minkin, MD, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale Medical School, tells SELF. Casey Gueren, SELF, 26 July 2022 It was ranked 29th for diabetes and endocrinology; 30th in the U.S. for cancer care; 36th in neurology and neurosurgery; 45th in orthopedics; 41st for gastroenterology surgery and gastrointestinal surgery; and 47th in obstetrics and gynecology. Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2022 Ear, nose and throat. Gastroenterology and GI surgery. Geriatrics. Obstetrics and gynecology. Neurology and neurosurgery. Orthopedics. Pulmonology and lung surgery. Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 26 July 2022 In typical early miscarriages, when cardiac activity has stopped, patients should be offered three options to expel tissue, said Dr. Sarah Prager, an obstetrics and gynecology professor at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. New York Times, 17 July 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
probably borrowed from German Gynäkologie, borrowed from New Latin gynaecologia, from gynaeco- gyneco- + -logia -logy
Note: The Latin term appears in the titles of the German physician Martin Schurig's Gynaecologia historico-medica (Dresden, 1730) and in the German humanist and physician Johann Peter Lotichius's Gynaicologia, id est, de nobilitate et perfectione sexus feminei (Rinteln, 1630). Neither work, however, dealt with gynecology as a branch of medicine. Schurig's book dealt with female sexual behavior from a medical and legal standpoint, and Lotichius discussed the nature of women and challenged the ancients' belief in female inferiority.
First Known Use
1828, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
gynecology
noun
gy·ne·col·o·gy
variants or chiefly British gynaecology
ˌgīn-ə-ˈkäl-ə-jē ˌjin-
ˌjin- plural gynecologies
: a branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and routine physical care of the reproductive system of women