abortion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.

   “Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide.”

2. isim An induced abortion.

   “Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.”

3. isim An aborted foetus; an abortus.

   “‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’”

4. isim A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.

   “Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions, begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.”

5. isim Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.

   “The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.”

6. isim Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
7. isim The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.