| NOUN | act | spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth | a natural loss of the products of conception |
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| Meaning | A natural loss of the products of conception. | |
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| Synonyms | miscarriage, 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 | |
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