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missed abortion
A pregnancy loss in which embryonic or foetal development ceases, but the pregnancy tissue remains in the uterus and may require medical monitoring or intervention. It is also known as missed miscarriage, silent miscarriage, retained abortion and missed pregnancy loss.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Anatomy, physiology and embryology
Level of specialization High
Definition source Manual Merck
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Prevalence Woman
Variants
Synonym
missed miscarriage
Standard
missed pregnancy loss
Formal
silent miscarriage
Standard
Hypernym
pregnancy loss
Standard
spontaneous abortion
Standard
Equivalents

Spanish

aborto diferido

Valenciano

avortament diferit
Associated concepts
Type of
miscarriage
May cause
vaginal bleeding
pain
Caused by
congenital anomalies
anomalies of the female reproductive system
Examples
Anti-abortive hormonal therapeutics as cause of deferred abortion.

Collocations
WITH ADJECTIVES
 first-trimester deferred abortion 
WITH VERBS
 deferred abortion was diagnosed