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ABORTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Termination of pregnancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("abortion" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abortion"):
miscarriage; spontaneous abortion; stillbirth (a natural loss of the products of conception)
induced abortion (a deliberate termination of pregnancy)
Derivation:
abort (terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion)
abortionist (a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Failure of a plan
Synonyms:
abortion; miscarriage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("abortion" is a kind of...):
failure (an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose)
Derivation:
abort (terminate before completion)
Context examples:
A. suis is a commensal organism of the oral cavity and reproductive tract of pigs but may cause abortion, hemorrhage and embolic lesions in immunocompromised pigs.
(Actinobacillus suis, NCI Thesaurus)
Some anticardiolipin antibodies prolong phospholipid dependent clotting while others are associated with spontaneous abortion.
(Anticardiolipin Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)
B abortus is found in cattle where it causes abortions and causes brucellosis in humans.
(Brucella abortus, NCI Thesaurus)
It is associated with thrombosis, spontaneous abortion, and complications during labor.
(Anticardiolipin IgG Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)
Congenital heart defects occur in 1% of live births and fetal heart malformations are implicated in many pregnancies that end in still-birth or spontaneous abortion.
(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Inducing a potent analgesia, the use of diamoprhine is often escalated due to a tolerance effect, resulting in abuse that is associated with fatal overdose, abortion, venous sclerosis, and opportunistic infections, among other adverse effects.
(Diacetylmorphine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
He was impelled to suggest Locksley Hall, and would have done so, had not his vision gripped him again and left him staring at her, the female of his kind, who, out of the primordial ferment, creeping and crawling up the vast ladder of life for a thousand thousand centuries, had emerged on the topmost rung, having become one Ruth, pure, and fair, and divine, and with power to make him know love, and to aspire toward purity, and to desire to taste divinity—him, Martin Eden, who, too, had come up in some amazing fashion from out of the ruck and the mire and the countless mistakes and abortions of unending creation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Abortion brought on intentionally.
(Induced Abortion Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy.
(Abortion, NIH)
