What is the difference between pregnancy and abortion?
pregnancy | abortion |
(countable) The condition of being pregnant.
* 2012 , Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 December 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/03/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-expecting-baby?intcmp=122]
The period of time this condition prevails.
(uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.
(medicine, or, dated) The cessation of pregnancy or fetal development:
# (medicine, or, dated) a miscarriage.
# (still current) an induced abortion.
# The act of inducing the cessation of pregnancy.
(dated) The immature product of an untimely birth.
A monstrosity; a misshapen person.
(figuratively) Failure of a promise or a goal.
(biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
Any fruit or produce which is interrupted in its progress before it is matured or perfect; an idea, project, or anything that does not come to maturity.
* {{quote-book, date = 1800-09-23
, title = Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush
, first = Thomas
, last = Jefferson
, authorlink = Thomas Jefferson
, url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj090069))
, passage = The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.
}}
(chiefly, arts) Something ugly, an artistic atrocity.
* 1846 , , Pictures from Italy , [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=269656481&textreg=2&query=abortion&id=DicPict Chapter 10].
The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
An unpleasant or poorly executed idea or project.
* 1999', "foo...@my-deja.com", ''Menace is AN '''ABORTION OF A MOVIE'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.starwars )
* 2000 , "Jules", please dont buy beacon cd'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.allman-brothers )
* 2003 , David Kerekes, Headpress 24: Powered by Love (page 133)
As nouns the difference between pregnancy and abortion
is that pregnancy is the condition of being pregnant while abortion is the cessation of pregnancy or fetal development.pregnancy
English
Noun
(pregnancies) (wikipedia pregnancy)- News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.
Synonyms
* gestation * graviditySee also
* with childabortion
English
(wikipedia abortion)Noun
(en noun)- Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions , begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.
- Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absolute abortion of a song.
- an absolute abortion of a book
