ABORTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abortus mean? 

• ABORTUS (noun)
  The noun ABORTUS has 1 sense:

1. a human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body

  Familiarity information: ABORTUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABORTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("abortus" is a kind of...):

fetus; foetus (an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal)

 Context examples 

Retention in uterus of an abortus that has been dead at least 4 weeks.

(Missed Abortion, Food and Drug Administration)

Retention in uterus of an abortus.

(Missed Abortion, NCI Thesaurus)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Brucella abortus.

(Brucella abortus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

B abortus is found in cattle where it causes abortions and causes brucellosis in humans.

(Brucella abortus, NCI Thesaurus)

Minnesota5 (swine strain), DXL (poultry strain), RB51 (vaccine strain of Brucella abortus)

(Animal Organism Strain, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)