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Feticide vs Feticidal - What's the difference?

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Feticide is a related term of feticidal.


As a noun feticide

is an abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus.

As an adjective feticidal is

killing a fetus.

feticide

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus.
  • * {{quote-book, title=Abortion in Judaism
    • , author=Daniel Schiff , publisher=Cambridge University Press , year=2002 , isbn=0521521661, page=68 , passage=Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef'' approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a ''nefesh .}}
  • * 1878 , H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209:
    • Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.
  • One who kills a fetus.

    • feticidal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Killing a fetus.

    • Related terms

    * feticide