abortion 音標拼音: [əb'ɔrʃən]
n . 流產,墮胎,失敗,夭折
流產,墮胎,失敗,夭折
abortion n 1 :
termination of pregnancy 2 :
failure of a plan [
synonym : {
miscarriage }, {
abortion }]
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n . [
L .
abortio ,
fr .
aboriri .
See {
Abort }.]
1 .
The act of giving premature birth ;
particularly ,
the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely ,
or before it is capable of sustaining life ;
miscarriage .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
The immature product of an untimely birth ;
a fetus which has been delivered prematurely due to spontaneous or voluntary abortion ,
and is dead .
[
1913 Webster PJC ]
3 . (
Biol .)
Arrest of development of any organ ,
so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed .
[
1913 Webster ]
4 .
Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity ,
or anything which in its progress ,
before it is matured or perfect ;
a complete failure ;
as ,
his attempt proved an abortion .
[
1913 Webster ]
5 .
the removal of a fetus from the womb prior to normal delivery in a manner such as to cause the death of the fetus ;
also called {
voluntary abortion },
or when performed by a physician , {
therapeutic abortion }.
[
PJC ]
Note :
In the 1913 Webster there was the following note appended to sense 1 :
[
hand ]
It is sometimes used for the offense of procuring a premature delivery ,
but strictly the early delivery is the abortion , "
causing or procuring abortion "
is the full name of the offense . --
Abbott .
[
PJC ]
6 .
something considered to be a repulsive or monstrous variant of a normal object ;
a monstrosity .
[
PJC ]
ABORTION ,
med jur .
and criminal law .
The expulsion of the foetus before the seventh mouth of utero -
gestation ,
or before it is viable .
q .
v .
2 .
The causes of this accident are referable either to the mother ,
or to the foetus and its dependencies .
The causes in the mother may be :
extreme nervous susceptibility ,
great debility ,
plethora ,
faulty conformation ,
and the like ;
and it is frequently induced immediately by intense mental emotion .
The causes seated in the foetus are its death ,
rupture of the membranes , &
c .
3 .
It most frequently occurs between the 8th and 12th weeks of gestation .
When abortion is produced with a malicious design ,
it becomes a misdemeanor ,
at common law ,
1 Russell ,
553 ;
and the party causing it may be indicted and punished .
4 .
The criminal means resorted to for the purpose of destroying the foetus ,
may be divided into general and local .
To the first belong vivisection ,
emetics ,
cathartics diuretics ,
emmenagogues &
c .
The second embraces all kinds of violence directly applied .
5 .
When ,
in consequence of the means used to produce abortion ,
the death of the woman ensues ,
the crime is murder .
6 .
By statute a distinction is made between a woman quick with child ,
(
q .
v .)
and one who ,
though pregnant ,
is not so ,
1 Bl .
Com .
129 .
Physiologists ,
perhaps with reason ,
think that the child is a living being from the moment of conception .
1 Beck .
Med .
Jur .
291 .
General References .
1 Beck ,
288 to 331 ;
and 429 to 435 ;
where will be found an abstract of the laws of different countries ,
and some of the states punishing criminal abortion ;
Roscoe ,
Cr .
Ev .
190 ;
1 Russ .
553 ;
Vilanova y Manes ,
Materia Criminal Forense ,
Obs .
11 ,
c .
7 n .
15 -
18 .
See also 1 Briand ,
Med .
Leg .
1 ere partie ,
c .
4 ,
where the question is considered ,
how far abortion is justifiable ,
and is neither a crime nor a misdemeanor .
See Alis .
Cr .
L .
of Scot .
628 .
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