INDUCED ABORTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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