How to pronounce “abortion”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.[from 16th c.]
• (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus. [from 16th c.]
• (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity. [from 16th c.]
• (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc. [from 17th c.]
• (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
• The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

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