Definition of Incomplete abortion

1. Noun. Termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception.

Exact synonyms: Partial Abortion
Generic synonyms: Miscarriage, Spontaneous Abortion, Stillbirth

Medical Definition of Incomplete abortion

1. A clinical situation where the foetus has died but has not been completely expelled from the uterus. (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incomplete Abortion

incompetence
incompetences
incompetencies
incompetency
incompetent
incompetent cervical os
incompetent cervix
incompetent person
incompetently
incompetents
incompetibility
incompetible
incompleatly
incompletable
incomplete
incomplete abortion (current term)
incomplete achromatopsia
incomplete agglutinin
incomplete alexia
incomplete antibody
incomplete antigen
incomplete ascertainment
incomplete atrioventricular block
incomplete atrioventricular dissociation
incomplete cleavage
incomplete conjoined twins
incomplete disinfectant
incomplete dominance
incomplete fistula
incomplete flower

Literary usage of Incomplete abortion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"Secondly, if any portion of the ovum has come away, whilst the remainder of it is retained in utero, i e., if it be a case of incomplete abortion. ..."

2. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"incomplete abortion means that the process has started, ... incomplete abortion is dangerous condition, because of its immediate and remote bad sequela? ..."

3. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1916)
"In neglected abortion the clinical picture is the same as in incomplete abortion, with the addition of the symptoms of local and general septic processes ..."

4. A Practical Textbook of the Diseases of Women by Arthur Hamilton Nicholson Lewers (1893)
"incomplete abortion.—The next case illustrates bleeding due to an incomplete abortion, parts of the ovum having been left behind. ..."

5. A Text-book of Obstetrics by Adam Henry Wright (1905)
"incomplete abortion.—Some one or more of these structures are retained in the uterus. In considering the treatment of incomplete abortion the following ..."

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