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abortion
English
Etymology
From Latin aborti?nem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort +? -ion. Displaced earlier Middle English abort (“abortion”), from the same Latin origin.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??b??.?n?/, enPR: ??bôrsh?n
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n
Noun
abortion (countable and uncountable, plural abortions)
- (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion. [from 16th c.]
- 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, vol IV:
- At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.
- 2017, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, 5 October:
- Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.
- 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, vol IV:
- (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus. [from 16th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 657:
- ‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:
- The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 657:
- (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity. [from 16th c.]
- (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc. [from 17th c.]
- (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
- The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
Synonyms
- abort (obsolete), abortus
- (induced abortion): aborticide, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
- (act of terminating pregnancy): aborticide, embryoctony, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
- (spontaneous abortion): miscarriage, misbirth
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Translations
Further reading
- abortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- boration, orbation, rainboot
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