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
- 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.