imminent abortion

1. 1.

   the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception

   Synonymsthreatened abortion

   Broaderspontaneous abortion

Questions about imminent abortion

What does imminent abortion mean?

imminent abortion means "the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception".

What is another word for imminent abortion?

Close synonyms include threatened abortion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imminent abortion a common word?

imminent abortion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.