SPONTANEOUS ABORTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A natural loss of the products of conception

Synonyms:

miscarriage; spontaneous abortion; stillbirth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("spontaneous abortion" is a kind of...):

abortion (termination of pregnancy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spontaneous abortion"):

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)