Definition of Feticidal

1. Adjective. Killing a fetus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feticidal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feticidal

fether
fethers
fetial
fetiales
fetialis
fetials
fetiasite
fetich
fetiche
fetiches
fetichism
fetichisms
fetichist
fetichistic
fetichists
feticidal (current term)
feticide
feticides
feticism
fetid
fetid bugbane
fetid horehound
fetider
fetidest
fetidities
fetidity
fetidly
fetidness
fetidnesses
fetids

Literary usage of Feticidal

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

1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1888)
"Objections have been urged against electricity as a feticidal agent —that it is an immediately dangerous operation, that the diagnosis has not always been ..."

2. Extra-uterine pregnancy (1889)
"The use of electricity as a feticidal agent is largely an American method of treatment. Aveling claims the first successful case in England, in the British ..."

3. Interpreters and Interpretations by Carl Van Vechten (1917)
"... freely offering incense and the freshly slain sacrifices of baby musicians to the false gods of their fathers. Often, indeed, their work is feticidal. ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1897)
"Dr. More Madden summarizes the alleged dangers of using ergot as: (i) A possible feticidal effect; (2) the inducing of irregular uterine contraction such as ..."

5. Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal (1890)
"191,): " Unless the imminence of rupture render feticidal efforts hazardous and delay for this purpose inadvisable, the life of the fetus should always be ..."

6. Sex Searchlights and Sane Sex Ethics: An Anthology of Sex Knowledge by Lee Alexander Stone (1922)
"Scan the next paper that comes into your home and see if the virtues of some tansy, pennyroyal or other feticidal compound be not therein set forth. ..."

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