abortus — meaning in English

English meaning

• abortion noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
• miscarriage noun The loss of a pregnancy before the baby can survive outside the womb.

Senses

abortus is used for these senses in English:

• abortion (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.[from 16th c.]
• abortion An induced abortion.
• abortion (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
• miscarriage (medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

abortion — full definition

1. noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
2. noun A pregnancy that ends naturally and too early to produce a surviving baby; a miscarriage.
3. noun The failure or collapse of a plan, project, or process partway through.

miscarriage — full definition

1. noun The loss of a pregnancy before the baby can survive outside the womb.
2. noun A failure of something, especially a plan or process, to work as intended — most often used in the fixed phrase "miscarriage of justice."

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