gynecology

in a sentence

Adelia died in 1913, of cancer — an unnamed and therefore most likely gynecological variety.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Two days ago I was sitting in the Gynecology Annex of the University Hospital down in Iowa City waiting for Dr. Mrs. Jaswani to get off the phone and call me in, when the woman next to me on the sofa started sobbing into a book she held pressed tight to her face.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

Her testimony was exposed as unreliable by the State's own expert witness, Dr. Dennis McNally, an obstetrician/gynecologist who examined Mrs. Colbey two weeks after the stillbirth.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

The debutante ball had been the brainchild of Dr. Henry Collier, a gynecologist and the first black doctor to perform surgery at Candler Hospital.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

"Maternal deaths in developing countries are often the ultimate tragic outcome of the cumulative denial of women's human rights," noted the journal Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

After Marley had given the poodle a full gynecological examination, Jenny was able to drag him back into place.†  (source) John Grogan, Marley & Me, 2005

Since she got her period, which she knew could have been a miscarriage, she'd been thinking about seeing a doctor, but she didn't know any gynecologists, and she certainly wasn't going to ask her sister to recommend one.†  (source) Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event, 2015

She secured a room of her own atop the house of a widow, a record player and small collection of vinyl, a circle of acquaintances among the city's free spirits, and a connection to a discreet and nonjudgmental female gynecologist.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

Some months later, Lisa ran off again while she was being taken to a gynecology consult at the Mass.†  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

Amanda stopped with a look of horror when they came to the door of the operating room: she had seen the instruments and the gynecological table.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

The hospital manages to have clean sheets, but there are still just two gynecologists in an area with 5 million people.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

"Tell her she'll need a cesarean!" a drunk gynecologist had said to her husband while they waited for their change at the gas station.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had "misinterpreted" and "mislabeled" Henrietta's cancer.†  (source) Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010