¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abortifacients
1. abortifacient [n] - See also: abortifacient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abortifacients
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 ..."
Other Resources:
