misabort

English

Etymology

mis- + abort

Verb

misabort (third-person singular simple present misaborts, present participle misaborting, simple past and past participle misaborted)

  1. (rare) To spontaneously abort.
    • 1991, D. T. Y. Liu, A Practical Guide to Chorion Villus Sampling, page 117:
      Between 6 and 9 per cent of our patients referred for diagnosis miscarry or misabort before villus sampling is carried out.
    • 2001, Cynthia A. Williams, Charles A. Williams, Deborah McMullan, One of Those Women, page 37:
      I just had an IUD removed, and the baby I was carrying with the IUD misaborted.
    • 2013, Mitchell S. Golbus, D. T. Y. Liu, E. M. Symonds, Chorion Villus Sampling, page 93:
      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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