abortion
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
abortion
- (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion. [from 16th c.]
- 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, vol IV:
- At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.
- 2017, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, 5 October ↗:
- Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.
- 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, vol IV:
- (now, rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus. [from 16th c.]
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:
- The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:
- (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity. [from 16th c.]
- (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc. [from 17th c.]
- (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
- The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
- (induced abortion) aborticide, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
- (act of terminating pregnancy) aborticide, embryoctony, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
- miscarriage
- misbirth
- French: fausse couche
- German: Fehlgeburt
- Italian: aborto
- Portuguese: aborto, aborto espontâneo
- Russian: вы́кидыш
- Spanish: aborto, aborto involuntario
- French: avortement
- German: Abtreibung, Schwangerschaftsabbruch
- Italian: aborto
- Portuguese: aborto induzido, aborto
- Russian: або́рт
- Spanish: aborto, aborto inducido
- French: avortement, interruption volontaire de grossesse, IVG
- German: Abtreibung
- Italian: aborto
- Portuguese: aborto, abortamento
- Russian: або́рт
- Spanish: aborto
- Italian: abortivo
- French: avorton
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