Definition of Threatened abortion

1. Noun. The appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception.


Medical Definition of Threatened abortion

1. A clinical diagnosis that is made in females in the first trimester of pregnancy who present with vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain. This diagnosis can only be made after all other causes for these same symptoms have been excluded, through testing and physical examination. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Threatened Abortion

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Literary usage of Threatened abortion

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

1. Moral problems in hospital practice by Patrick A. Finney (1922)
"26: In a case of threatened abortion, is the cautious administration of ... This answer is based upon the fact that in certain cases of threatened abortion, ..."

2. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1896)
"Symptoms.— Moles.—Incomplete abortions.—Diagnosis.—Prognosis.—Treatment.—Prophylaxis.—Arrest of threatened abortion.—Treatment of inevitable abortion. ..."

3. The Science and art of midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1893)
"Arrest of threatened abortion.—Treatment of inevitable abortion.— Treatment of neglected abortion.—Removal of fibrinous polypi.—Treatment of miscarriage. ..."

4. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1916)
"In threatened abortion the discharge is usually of a bright red color and free ... In threatened abortion there is little or no pain, while in inevitable ..."

5. The Prevention and Treatment of Abortion by Frederick Joseph Taussig (1910)
"CHAPTER XI Prevention of threatened abortion The term "threatened abortion" is a little ambiguous. What is meant is that the opening steps of an abortion, ..."

6. Medical Gynecology by Howard Atwood Kelly (1908)
"threatened abortion. — The symptoms indicating a threatened abortion are, ... When due to threatened abortion the discharge is not usually profuse at first; ..."

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