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PARTIAL ABORTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does partial abortion mean?
• PARTIAL ABORTION (noun)
The noun PARTIAL ABORTION has 1 sense:
1. termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception
Familiarity information: PARTIAL ABORTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
incomplete abortion; partial abortion
Hypernyms ("partial abortion" is a kind of...):
miscarriage; spontaneous abortion; stillbirth (a natural loss of the products of conception)
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