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Definition of Habitual abortion
1. Noun. Repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason).
Medical Definition of Habitual abortion
1. A condition in which a woman has had three or more consecutive, spontaneous abortion's. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habitual Abortion
Literary usage of Habitual abortion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"In habitual abortion, where this is dependent upon a weakened a/onic condition
of the uterus, Dr. Meadows suggests the use of ergot, commencing in small ..."
2. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1845)
"On habitual abortion in Flexion of the Uterus. ... While, on the one hand, it
may very well happen that the so-called habitual abortion, in any patient, ..."
3. A Text-book of the science and art of obstetrics by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1907)
"habitual abortion.—Some women have so great a tendency to abortion that the event
is repeated every time they become pregnant. The writer has seen a case in ..."
4. The Prevention and Treatment of Abortion by Frederick Joseph Taussig (1910)
"habitual abortion. In some women the tendency to abort is so strong that extreme
measures must be resorted to. At times a miscarriage has been averted only ..."
5. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1891)
"SOME authorities assert that " habitual " abortion is often due to indefinite
... Others esteem syphilis as the most common cause of habitual abortion. ..."
6. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"Assafoetida in (he Treatment of habitual abortion.—Negri" was successful in a
patient who had several abortions, and who had no symptoms of syphilis, ..."
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