What's the difference between aborticide and abortifacient?
Aborticide
Definition:
(n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
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Abortifacient
Definition:
(v.) Producing miscarriage.
(n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
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(1) Mifepristone is an effective abortifacient in combination with an exogenous prostaglandin but its mechanism of action is unknown.
(2) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
(3) The termination of the early pregnancy in the mouse may have resulted from an inhibitory effect of the abortifacient protein on the differentiating endometrium.
(4) A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple pregnancy is reduced to a singleton or a twin pregnancy to improve the likelihood that the remaining fetuses will reach viability.
(5) The characteristics of this protein were compared and contrasted with those of the abortifacient proteins isolated from other plants of the Cucurbitaceae family.
(6) The fetal heart tones were closely monitored by a Doppler instrument and the time from injection of abortifacient to fetal demise (IDT) and to fetal expulsion (IAT) was accurately recorded.
(7) The ribosome inactivating proteins from Luffa cylindrica seeds also possessed abortifacient activity: they were capable of inducing mid term abortion in mice, inhibiting protein synthesis in a cell-free system, and suppressing thymidine uptake by human choriocarcinoma cells.
(8) SH B 286 is shown by this study to be an effective and safe abortifacient.
(9) Several experiments indicated that prostaglandin F2alpha (PGF2alpha) has luteolytic and abortifacient properties in mares.
(10) None of the prepared analogs demonstrated the abortifacient activity of aminoglutethimide.
(11) In the 3rd phase of the Joint Program for the Study of Abortion, the adjusted relative risk of serious complications associated with the intraamniotic instillation of urea and prostaglandin F2alpha (the safest abortifacient regimen) was 1.9 times that associated with D&E (95% confidence interval, 1.2-3.1).
(12) No teratological or abortifacient effects were noted.
(13) The administration of ineffective pseudo-abortifacients can delay the decision to seek an illegal abortion or result in life-threatening incomplete abortion.
(14) It had lower abortifacient and protein synthesis inhibiting activities but it also possessed lower allergenicity, suggesting that it may be useful as a substitute of trichosanthin, especially when the problem of hypersensitivity caused by prolonged administration of trichosanthin is serious.
(15) The GH response in the women receiving normal saline was significantly less than for the two groups of women receiving the abortifacients.
(16) Examination of paired serum samples from abortions from which only Corynebacterium pyogenes was isolated revealed evidence of active infection in two-thirds, suggesting that C. pyogenes may have been acting as a primary abortifacient in these cases.
(17) RU-486 or mifepristone is best known as an antiprogestin and an abortifacient, but it has broad medical applicability.
(18) Coincident with the end of the PRL-dependent phase of gestation (approximately day 9), BCR was no longer abortifacient, allowing higher doses of the drug to be administered from this time without the risk of abortion.
(19) Intra-amniotic prostaglandin F2alpha, in doses of 2.5 to 20 mg, combined with 80 gm of urea, was an effective, safe, simple, and economical midtrimester abortifacient in 115 patients.
(20) Rue is notable because of its use independently within different cultures, but may exhibit toxic side effects when used as an abortifacient.