What's the difference between abort and miscarry?

Abort


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
  • (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
  • (n.) An untimely birth.
  • (n.) An aborted offspring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (2) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (3) The multiple pregnancy rate was 18% and the abortion rate, 18%.
  • (4) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (5) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (6) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
  • (7) Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world – 95% of abortions carried out there are performed in unsafe conditions.
  • (8) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
  • (9) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
  • (10) Only one ewe aborted, 10 days after the first infecting dose, at 94 days of gestation; L monocytogenes was isolated from several sites in both its aborted fetuses.
  • (11) Lupus anticoagulant associated with thrombocytopenia, thrombosis or recurrent abortions was diagnosed in 2 epileptic patients chronically treated with anticonvulsant drugs.
  • (12) According to a Guttmacher Institute review (pdf), about 9% of maternal deaths in India are from complications of unsafe abortions.
  • (13) Only one monoclonal antibody strongly inhibited cAMP binding by CRP, and this was accompanied by a consequent strong inhibition of both lac DNA binding and abortive initiation by RNA polymerase.
  • (14) Of the 68 successful abortions 59% of the patients aborted in 12 hours or less and 88% aborted within 24 hours.
  • (15) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
  • (16) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (17) The last complete count of the number of US abortions was made by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) in 1982.
  • (18) "Medical professionals have perhaps been the least involved [of all sectors] in debates and discussions around abortion, and anti-choice groups have very effectively carried out a deliberate strategy of targeting and influencing health professionals.
  • (19) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
  • (20) There were two spontaneous abortions, both in the first trimester, which occurred two weeks after the overdose which may be related to the paracetamol.

Miscarry


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth young before the proper time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presence of toxoplasmosis was ruled out via investigations of blood sera taken from weaned lambs and from ewes that had miscarried in the same flock, employing the microprecipitation test in agar gel after Hubner and Uhliková.
  • (2) Female fertility drops steeply above the age of 35 and the risk of miscarriage increases: at the age of 40 and above, 40% of pregnancies will be miscarried.
  • (3) The not-too-distant past has demonstrated that justice, even here, can often be miscarried.
  • (4) Meanwhile in Edinburgh, for the second consecutive year , zoo officials have admitted that their star attraction, the giant panda Tian Tian, is not pregnant , and probably miscarried after she was artificially inseminated in the spring.
  • (5) Fifteen healthy infants were born including one set of twins; three pregnancies are progressing normally and five miscarried.
  • (6) Of the patients, 23 have delivered live infants (one twins, 22 singletons), 15 (32%) miscarried and 9 have ongoing pregnancies.
  • (7) Asialo-GM1 positive cells in the placenta of successful pregnancy decreased in number, and those in miscarried pregnancy increased.
  • (8) The death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, after she was denied an abortion when she began miscarrying, focused attention on the issue, as did reports last year of the treatment of a young asylum seeker who had been raped before coming to Ireland , who was refused an abortion by the Irish health service.
  • (9) 13.8% of the women who had miscarried previously experienced this complication, as did 9.1% of those who had had an abortion, 9.1% of those who delivered prematurely, and 3.6% of women who experienced normal deliveries.
  • (10) Patel’s case opens the door for any woman who expresses doubt about her pregnancy to be charged if she miscarries or has a stillbirth.
  • (11) The results indicated that normal women reached a typical pregnancy thyroid test profile at seven to eight weeks' gestation while habitual aborters carrying a pregnancy to term reached it at 14 to 15 weeks and almost all patients who miscarried never reached it at all.
  • (12) Among women who had miscarried, symptom levels did not vary with attitude toward the pregnancy; among pregnant women, depressive symptoms were elevated in those with unwanted pregnancies.
  • (13) A follow-up study of 78 Motherisk clients who had indicated at presentation (prior to counseling) a greater than 50% inclination to terminate their pregnancy revealed that 61 decided, on the basic of counseling, to continue with the pregnancy; 57 of these women delivered normal, healthy infants, while the remaining 4 miscarried.
  • (14) The same investigations were performed also on a total of 40 placentae of ewes that had miscarried.
  • (15) Genetic abnormalities were detected in 11 cases; one patient miscarried 3 days after amniocentesis.
  • (16) Six of these fetuses were miscarried between 16 and 28 weeks of gestation.
  • (17) In the second flock there were 61 per cent positive reagents, and 9 of the ewes miscarried, 5 of them being positive for toxoplasmosis.
  • (18) The research participants were followed to determine whether the pregnancy was miscarried or delivered.
  • (19) It is stated that the phospholipid blood serum fracitons of cows that have miscarried show a statistically dependable drop only in the case of lecithine.
  • (20) An investigation was made of progressive changes in these parameters in 70 normal pregnant women, 34 pregnant women with a past history of habitual abortion who carried to term, seven habitual aborters who miscarried again, and 49 women at the time of spontaneous miscarriage.

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