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- noun Plural form of
abortive . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abortive .
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Examples
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There's also something called abortives, meaning that you take it and it actually aborts the migraine.
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There are other medications that are called abortives or preventives, medications, certain blood pressure medications, for example, can help as well.
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Neither of the abortives the clinic had prescribed had succeeded in aborting my headache.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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“Odd that you were given Keppra and Depakote instead of the more common abortives,” he murmured.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Neither of the abortives the clinic had prescribed had succeeded in aborting my headache.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Do your own research, if you wish … no one (not even the most staunch pro-abortives in our sheltered Western world) has ever tried to deny the problem.
ProWomanProLife » When we say abortion is not pro-woman 2010
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“Odd that you were given Keppra and Depakote instead of the more common abortives,” he murmured.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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The vegetable substances commonly reputed to be abortives are ergot, savin, aloes (Hierapicra), digitalis, colocynth, pennyroyal, and nutmeg; but _there is no evidence to show that any drug possesses this property_.
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Emmenagogues are remedies which have the property of exciting the catamenial flow; ecbolics, or abortives, are drugs which excite contraction of the uterus, and are supposed to have the power of expelling its contents.
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The vegetable substances frequently used as abortives are savin and ergot.
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