Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, the fruit of an abortion; a child born before the proper time; an abortion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a fetus which has been aborted; same as
abortion{2} .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body
Etymologies
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The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
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The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
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The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
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The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
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The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
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The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
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Although claiming to show the living fetus, Nilsson actually photographed abortus material obtained from women who terminated their pregnancies under the liberal Swedish law.
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Burial of an abortus after forty days of gestation was required for issues of ritual purity.
Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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It was disturbing that about 30 percent of cattle farmers still used strain 19 vaccine on heifer calves with "brucella abortus".
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Causes Six species of Brucella are currently presently known, of which Brucella melitensis, Brucella suis and Brucella abortus have public health implications.
Chapter 2 1997
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