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induced abortion
Voluntary termination of a clinical pregnancy using medication or medical or surgical procedures. If the abortion is performed due to serious health problems affecting the mother, it is referred to as therapeutic; however, if it is carried out at the mother’s request, it is referred to as elective.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Fertility problems
Level of specialization Medium
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Prevalence Woman
Variants
Synonym
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

aborto inducido

Valenciano

avortament induït
Associated concepts
Type of
abortion
Examples
Another recent study, comparing the vaginal microbiota of women with a normal pregnancy that ended through an induced abortion and women with unexplained RPL, showed that the latter group had an increased incidence of Pseudomonas, Roseburia, Collinsella aerofaciens, and Arthrobacter.