Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instance of suddenly breaking away or off.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sudden breaking off; a sudden termination; a violent separation of bodies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instance of sudden interruption
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Examples
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Placental abruption is a true obstetric emergency.
Matthew Yglesias » Tebow to Alienate Pro Football Fans During Super Bowl 2010
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He said: This is called an abruption and it is a problem for the mother and the baby.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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I was having a placental abruption: unless they got the baby out fast, they said, we would both die.
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Some reasons to undertake such procedures, as suggested by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, include: pregnancy-related high blood pressure; infection in the uterus; and leaking amniotic fluid without labor starting or a placental abruption -- that is, the placenta, which nourishes the baby, peels away from the uterus, a very rare complication requiring immediate attention.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Electively Induced Labor: Remember, For Babies' Sake, Every Week Counts M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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The ad is about how Mr. Tebow's mother was advised to abort her son following a placental abruption, but she refused and, well, now we have Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback Patton Dodd 2011
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Doctors thought she might have “placental abruption”, and that the baby would be at risk of being stillborn.
Matthew Yglesias » Tebow to Alienate Pro Football Fans During Super Bowl 2010
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By some miracle, she managed to not suffer the most common side effects of abruption — cerebral palsey.
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Doctors thought she might have “placental abruption”, and that the baby would be at risk of being stillborn.
Matthew Yglesias » Tebow to Alienate Pro Football Fans During Super Bowl 2010
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What I got was 10 hours of back labor (without meds) and then placental abruption and a C-section without an epidural.
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They diagnosed her with placental abruption, a premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall.
Marcia G. Yerman: The Super Bowl Slippery Slope: Advertising and Free Speech 2010
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