(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.
Monstrosity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Can someone get this monstrosity out of my kitchen?"
(2) The former chancellor said it was a bureaucratic monstrosity damaging the interests of the City of London.
(3) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(4) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(5) The specialist heritage architect Jean-François Cabestan, warned the plans would produce a monstrosity with " the aesthetics of a James Bond villa ".
(6) The constitutional sideshow highlights the full monstrosity of the government’s benefit cuts: worse is still to come.
(7) Most days I have to walk past this London monstrosity.
(8) In Latvia and across the three Baltic states, the octogenarian's conviction that Stalin surpassed Hitler in monstrosity is commonplace.
(9) Lawson, who was chancellor from 1983 to 1989 under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, said the EU had become "a bureaucratic monstrosity" and "the case for exit is clear".
(10) Athens is a place of contradictions and surprises, where ancient beauty meets contemporary architectural monstrosity and extreme kindness and hospitality clash with unexpected rudeness and ignorance.
(11) So it's as if some gigantifying artist – probably not Claes Oldenburg, more likely Jeff Koons – has come along in the middle of the night and transformed it into this solemn monstrosity.
(12) But instead of shutting this monstrosity, the camp is being rebuilt.
(13) Part of me is excited at the prospect of that kind of history being made, but then I think about what sort of monstrosity Sepp Blatter would commission to replace it and hope Holland win this just so the old man can't ruin yet another aspect of the World Cup."
(14) It does the same to most of the gluey, plastic, molten-cheese-smeared, iceberg-lettuce-bedded monstrosities that pass for Tex Mex in the US as well.
(15) Raiders of the Lost Ark Facebook Twitter Pinterest While, yes, Ford’s other iconic blockbuster character is somewhat similar to Solo in his eye-rolling caddishness, he’s also equally worthy of reverence, even in the fourth monstrosity.
(16) There is no doubt about the monstrosity of the case of the guilty nurse but it may be exemplary for a frequent defensive behaviour against the phenomena of age.
(17) We best know this protean monstrosity from its various film incarnations, but it was born in the 1938 sci-fi novella Who Goes There?
(18) The demonstration on Saturday is believed to have been targeting the new floating barge hotel, the Bibby Progress, which accommodates up to 635 staff and has been dubbed “a monstrosity” by local people.
(19) Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund are supporting the move which came with a new 35-page report: "Gas flaring in Nigeria: a human rights, environmental and economic monstrosity."
(20) Witches at Their Incantations (perhaps illustrating his own poem Strega), in the National Gallery, is a hideous nocturnal fantasy of the black sabbath, full of skeletal monstrosities, a hanged man, stolen babies, naked hags and evil brews.