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Definition of Abortive
Abortive definition - medical term
The word "abortive" has a number of meanings including prematurely
born; fruitless or unsuccessful; imperfectly formed or developed; tending to cut
short.
In everyday language, the sense of "abortive" to mean prematurely born, as "an
abortive child," is largely obsolete today. The main meaning of "abortive" in ordinary
English is fruitless or unsuccessful, as an "abortive enterprise" or an "abortive
effort."
In biology, "abortive" means imperfectly formed or developed or rudimentary as,
an "abortive organ."
In medicine, "abortive" has two meanings: one, causing abortion, as an "abortive
medicine," is rarely used nowadays; the other meaning, that of tending to cut short
is quite commonly used in medicine, as in the "abortive treatment of typhoid fever"
or "abortive polio": polio cut short.
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