NOUN | event | miscarriage, abortion | failure of a plan |
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act | miscarriage, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth | a natural loss of the products of conception |
Sounds | mihskeh'rahjh | |
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Rhymes | acreage ... wreckage: 85 rhymes with ahjh... |
Meaning | failure of a plan. | |
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Synonym | abortion | |
Broader | failure | An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose |
Spanish | aborto | |
Catalan | avortament | |
Verbs | miscarry | be unsuccessful |
Meaning | A natural loss of the products of conception. | |
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Synonyms | spontaneous abortion, stillbirth | |
Narrower | habitual abortion | repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason) |
imminent abortion, threatened abortion | The appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception | |
incomplete abortion, partial abortion | termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception | |
Broader | abortion | termination of pregnancy |
Opposite | live birth | The birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation) |
Spanish | aborto espontáneo, aborto, mortinatalidad, mortinato | |
Catalan | avortament | |
Verbs | miscarry | suffer a miscarriage |
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