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maieutic, maieutical
1. Relating to Socrates, his philosophy, or his method of arriving at the truth.
2. Of, or relating to, the aspect of the Socratic method that induces a respondent to formulate latent concepts through a dialectic or logical sequence of questions.
3. In obsterics, a rubber bag used for dilating the cervix uteri.
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