partial abortion

1. 1.

   termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception

   Synonymsincomplete abortion

   Broaderspontaneous abortion

Questions about partial abortion

What does partial abortion mean?

partial abortion means "termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception".

What is another word for partial abortion?

Close synonyms include incomplete 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 partial abortion a common word?

partial 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.