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induced abortion
A medical procedure that consists of the deliberate termination of a clinical pregnancy using medication or surgery.
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
Hypernym
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.