(n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Miscarriage
Definition:
(n.) Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
(n.) Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
(n.) The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of 222 pregnancies, with repeated spontaneous miscarriages confirms the clear preponderance of girls, among the non-premature and well-formed children born, and the efficiency of H.C.G.
(2) "No one is protected by miscarriages of justice, which recruit more terrorists than they ever prevent."
(3) Although, as she said in her statement to MPs, there were no deaths and no miscarriage of justice, there is copious evidence that the police at the least mislaid the rule book in their attempt to break the miners’ strike.
(4) Opponents of Grayling's proposals say that cutting legal aid will lead to more miscarriages of justice.
(5) 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.
(6) Of the more than 1 million annual adolescent pregnancies, 400,000 are aborted, 470,000 are born to term, and the rest result in spontaneous miscarriage.
(7) But there is a problem with someone who has shown no remorse for their crimes, and more than that, is running a miscarriage of justice campaign, going back to a large platform to promote that campaign, and that’s not acceptable.” She pointed out that Evans was denied leave to appeal.
(8) The prevalence of miscarriages was significantly, higher in HIV+ women than in HIV- ones (p less than 0.001).
(9) There were no significant differences in radiation doses between the women who had miscarriages and those who did not.
(10) It was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
(11) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
(12) The spontaneous miscarriage rate was 2.7 per cent occurring within the first 16 weeks.
(13) The present analysis, which concerns 5700 pregnancies experienced by the participants in the investigation, adds to the evidence that ex-users of oral contraceptives and intrauterine devices suffer no delecterious effects on the outcome of pregnancy in terms of miscarriage, ectopic gestation, stillbirth, congenital malformation, alteration in the sex ratio or reduction in birth weight.
(14) There was no significant correlation between the BMD at either the lumbar spine or the proximal femur and the number of miscarriages (r = 0.03 and 0.01, respectively).
(15) Leyland regularly took to Twitter to draw attention to what she felt was an appalling miscarriage of justice.
(16) The miscarriages and neonatal deaths of Queen Anne are believed to have been caused by an asymptomatic listeria monocytogenes infection.
(17) The Department of Health advises that alcohol is to be avoided in pregnancy, while the independent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence advises women to avoid alcohol in the first three months of pregnancy because of the risk of a miscarriage.
(18) What happened to her was beyond horrific, she suffered that night, she suffered in prison and she is still suffering.” Ibrahim’s lawyer, Nigel Richardson, is preparing to submit her case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which pursues miscarriages of justice.
(19) A greater use of allylestrenol in the first global evaluation was explained by a higher incidence in these groups of impending miscarriage and preterm labor, which are indications for allylestrenol therapy.
(20) The histological presence and distribution of hPL was investigated in endometrial curettings from 90 patients studied retrospectively (47 had ectopic pregnancies, 14 miscarriages, and 29 legal abortions), and a consecutive, prospective series of 50 patients (40 had miscarriages and 10 had ectopic pregnancies) without chorionic villi in their endometrial curettings.