salt out

verb

To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.

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Meanings

verbsalt out (third-person singular simple present salts out, present participle salting out, simple past and past participle salted out)

present singular third person salts out · participle present salting out · participle past salted out · past salted out

  1. transitivemedicineTo abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.

    If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.

    1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29
    1 more example

    […] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus.

    2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279
  2. chemistryTo precipitate out of a solution.
  3. chemistryTo cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.
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