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SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A natural loss of the products of conception
Synonyms:
miscarriage; spontaneous abortion; stillbirth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spontaneous abortion" is a kind of...):
abortion (termination of pregnancy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spontaneous abortion"):
habitual abortion (repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason))
imminent abortion; threatened abortion (the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception)
incomplete abortion; partial abortion (termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception)