Definition of Abortifacients

1. Noun. (plural of abortifacient) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abortifacients

1. abortifacient [n] - See also: abortifacient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abortifacients

abort
abortation
abortations
aborted
aborted ectopic pregnancy
abortee
abortees
aborter
aborters
aborticide
aborticides
abortient
abortients
abortifacient
abortifacient agents
abortifacients (current term)
abortigenic
abortin
aborting
abortins
abortion
abortion-inducing drug
abortion applicants
abortion pill
abortion pills
abortion rate
abortional
abortionism
abortionist
abortionists

Literary usage of Abortifacients

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

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"It is now quite generally held that an abortion is rarely produced by the so-called medicinal or chemical abortifacients. If produced at all, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In spite of extensive press 1) The prostaglandins act on almost all body systems (21), and, while their use as abortifacients will involve only short-term ..."

3. American Druggist (1889)
"Laws against abortifacients (GVD). This correspondent asks whether there is not a ... certain proprietary articles supposed to be used as abortifacients, ..."

4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"They also have a reputation as abortifacients, but ire highly dangerous. GALL-BLADDER Lieb and McWhorter, 1915, found that this is augmented by vagus and ..."

5. A Text-book of legal medicine by Frank Winthrop Draper (1905)
"The proprietary nostrums which conceal their true purpose as pretended abortifacients under the thinnest possible disguise of name and imputed use are ..."

6. Buffalo Medical Journal (1885)
"Dr. Moody inquired as to the effect of abortifacients—as ergot —upon extra-uterine pregnancy. Dr. WW Potter said that danger existed from the outset of an ..."

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