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abagmentum — 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.

Senses

abagmentum is used for these senses in English:

  • abortifacient (pharmaceutical drug) A drug or an agent that induces an abortion. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
  • abortion An induced abortion.

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.

Related Latin words