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ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abortion-inducing drug mean?
• ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG (noun)
The noun ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG has 1 sense:
1. a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion
Familiarity information: ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
aborticide; abortifacient; abortion-inducing drug
Hypernyms ("abortion-inducing drug" is a kind of...):
drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abortion-inducing drug"):
abortion pill; mifepristone; RU 486 (an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo)
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