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INDUCED ABORTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does induced abortion mean?
• INDUCED ABORTION (noun)
The noun INDUCED ABORTION has 1 sense:
1. a deliberate termination of pregnancy
Familiarity information: INDUCED ABORTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deliberate termination of pregnancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("induced abortion" is a kind of...):
abortion (termination of pregnancy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "induced abortion"):
aborticide; feticide (the act of destroying a fetus)
therapeutic abortion (a legally induced abortion for medical reasons (as when the mother's life is threatened))
suction curettage; vacuum aspiration (a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix)
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