A gynaecologist or gynecologist is a doctor who specialises in treating diseases of the female reproductive organs (uterus, vagina, and ovaries). The word "gynaecologist" comes from the Greek gyno, gynaikos meaning woman + logia meaning study, so a gynaecologist is literally a student of women, a women's doctor.
Almost all modern gynaecologists are also obstetricians. Obstetrics is the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period shortly after birth).
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