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misabort

verb

Etymology

From mis- + abort.

  1. derived from abortus
  2. prefixed as misabort — “mis + abort”

Definitions

  1. To spontaneously abort.

    • Between 6 and 9 per cent of our patients referred for diagnosis miscarry or misabort before villus sampling is carried out.
    • I just had an IUD removed, and the baby I was carrying with the IUD misaborted.
    • One fetus showed an abnormal cytogenetic pattern (45,XO) and this misaborted during the first trimester while the other fetus continued to do well.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA