(n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
(n.) The immature product of an untimely birth.
(n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
(n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.
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.
Abortionist
Definition:
(n.) One who procures abortion or miscarriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The medical profession has gone downhill since the days when abortionists were anathema.
(2) The decline is attributed to the declining incidence of criminal abortions performed by nonmedically qualified abortionists.
(3) This responsibility rightly involves executing convicted murderers, including abortionists, for their crimes in order to expunge bloodguilt from the land and people.” On Wednesday Butler welcomed the minister’s decision to block the visa and rejected claims Newman had been subjected to false accusations.
(4) 23 of the aboritons were performed by experienced abortionists.
(5) Anti-abortionists will stage their own rally in support of the new legislative session that the Texas governor, Rick Perry , called shortly after Davis's filibuster ended.
(6) On Thursday, the Right to Know campaign, which is supporting Dorries's and Field's campaign and is backed by some known anti-abortionists, responded robustly to the government's opposition to the plan.
(7) Now this new breed of anti-abortionists snip round the edges of the process with their strategies of delay ... er, sorry, "independent counselling".
(8) The majority of abortion-related deaths in this series were avoidable, reflecting a lack of family planning clinics, lack of liberal sterilization provisions, ineffective legal action against incompetent abortionists, and a scarcity of flying squad services.
(9) They, British citizens and taxpayers, are still driven to illegal abortionists: one in 10 GPs in the province report that they have dealt with the aftermath.
(10) As Chuck Todd, among others , pointed out to Fiorina, there is no evidence to suggest that this scene actually exists, to which Fiorina responded, “that scene absolutely does exist”, a claim not even the anti-abortionists who shot the undercover video have made, without a lot of qualifiers about the use of stock footage.
(11) Their state-run alcohol monopoly stores, the dreaded Systembolaget, were described by Susan Sontag as "part funeral parlour, part back-room abortionist".
(12) The pivotal moment in securing victory ifor Barack Obama's health reforms in the House of Representatives last night was winning over Bart Stupak and his bloc of anti-abortionists.
(13) The bill has angered feminists, humanists and pro-abortionists, hundreds of whom will be demonstrating outside parliament while the debate takes place.
(14) The day when Dorries would liberate pregnant women from the clutches of profit-making industrial abortionists like, oh, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
(15) The second of these has become an article of faith to many pro-abortionists and its credentials should be examined.
(16) The government has caved in to calls from anti-abortionists to overhaul existing protocols and strip charities and medics of their exclusive responsibility for counselling women seeking to terminate a pregnancy.
(17) He said he was not an anti-abortionist and that he had refused meetings with known anti-abortion groups to discuss the plans.
(18) The interviews, conducted at the end of the stay by the staff member with most rapport with the women, asked about the abortion method, abortionist, cost patient's socioeconomic background, knowledge and practice of contraception, and knowledge and attitude toward the Nigerian abortion law.
(19) "I do not want to return to the days of back-street abortionists," she said.
(20) Although Murphy faults this strict identification between natural events and willed human actions, he concludes that spontaneous abortion has no moral significance for pro-abortionists, who base the value of a fetus on considerations other than its status as a potential or actual human being.