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miscarriage
The unexpected loss of a pregnancy due to natural causes before the twentieth week of gestation or the natural loss of a human foetus that weighs less than 400 grams.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Fertility problems
Level of specialization High
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Prevalence Woman
Variants
Synonym
spontaneous abortion
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

aborto espontáneo
Associated concepts
Type of
abortion
Presents the symptom
lower back pain; tissue; vaginal bleeding
Examples
Uterine gland dysfunction has been implicated in pregnancy losses and complications such as miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, and fetal growth restriction.
Collocations
WITH ADJECTIVES
recurrent | spontaneous | consecutive | biochemical | sporadic | early miscarriage
WITH NOUNS
miscarriage rate 
WITH VERBS
prevent | have | experience a miscarriage