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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--tokology This week's theme: less-known synonyms of everyday words. tokology (to-KOL-uh-jee) noun, also tocology Midwifery or obstetrics. [From Greek toko, child, childbirth + logy.] -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Stockham sent a copy of her own book, Tokology: A Book for Every Woman ... This practical guide to childbearing and health had enjoyed great popular success." Robert Whittaker; Tolstoy's American Preachers: Letters on Religion and Ethics; TriQuarterly (Evanston, Illinois); Jan 1, 2000. X-Bonus The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. -Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)

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