raskaudenkeskeytys — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abortion noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
- termination noun The act of ending something, or the state of having ended.
Senses
raskaudenkeskeytys is used for these senses in English:
- abortion An induced abortion.
- 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 (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
- termination (medical) An induced abortion.
abortion — full definition
- noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
- noun A pregnancy that ends naturally and too early to produce a surviving baby; a miscarriage.
- noun The failure or collapse of a plan, project, or process partway through.
termination — full definition
- noun The act of ending something, or the state of having ended.
- noun The ending of someone's employment.
- noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy.