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Definition of Abortus
1. Noun. A human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body.
Definition of Abortus
1. Noun. An aborted fetus less than 12 weeks old. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abortus
1. an aborted fetus [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Abortus
1. Any product (or all products) of an abortion. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abortus
Literary usage of Abortus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Typical virulent strains of Bacterium abortus could not be isolated from the ...
Typical Bacterium abortus was found to be present in very large numbers in ..."
2. Veterinary Bacteriology: A Treatise on the Bacteria, Yeasts, Molds, and by Robert Earle Buchanan (1911)
"Bacillus abortus is very small, and, according to Nowak, resembles the bacillus of
... The isolation and cultivation of Bacillus abortus are attended with ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1922)
"THE TRANSMISSION OF AGGLUTININS OF BACILLUS abortus FROM COW TO CALF IN THE ...
In the work on infectious abortion associated with Bacillus abortus carried ..."
4. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The same result was obtained when B. abortus was used to absorb an ... Anti-abortus
serum absorbed with any abortus strain lost all agglutinins for both B. ..."
5. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"BACILLUS abortus Infectious abortion of cattle, a disease said to rank second
only to tuberculosis in economic importance, has been traced to a short, ..."