misabort

present singular third person misaborts · participle present misaborting · participle past misaborted · past misaborted

1. rareTo spontaneously abort.

   I just had an IUD removed, and the baby I was carrying with the IUD misaborted.

   2001, Cynthia A. Williams, Charles A. Williams, Deborah McMullan, One of Those Women, page 37

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   Between 6 and 9 per cent of our patients referred for diagnosis miscarry or misabort before villus sampling is carried out.

   1991, D. T. Y. Liu, A Practical Guide to Chorion Villus Sampling, page 117

   One fetus showed an abnormal cytogenetic pattern (45,XO) and this misaborted during the first trimester while the other fetus continued to do well.

   2013, Mitchell S. Golbus, D. T. Y. Liu, E. M. Symonds, Chorion Villus Sampling, page 93