miscarriage
- noun
- /ˈmɪsˌkɛrɪdʒ/
- Specialized
- She was devastated by her recent miscarriage and needed support from her friends.
- risk of miscarriage
- cause miscarriage
- history of miscarriage
And I know you're blessed now, but you had two miscarriages, right?
- And I know you're blessed now, but you had two miscarriages, right?
- And, you know, there's a small increased risk of miscarriage, small increased risk of preterm labor.
- And my thoughts on this was that I knew that my chance of miscarriage was higher than just an average person.
- However, the probability of miscarriage greatly increases as a function of the age of the egg.
- And it was what's called a missed miscarriage, which means your baby has passed, but your body hasn't recognized it.
- Like they suffer the most miscarriages or deaths by birth or things like that.
- They might have, if they're women, they might have multiple miscarriages, they might feel fatigued.
- There's been a category about pregnancies, miscarriages and infertility.
- I'm pregnant after a failed IVF cycle, after three miscarriages in a row.
- It causes death, preterm death, it causes miscarriages and it causes malformations like Tori.
- But this lie that abortions and life saving miscarriage care are the same thing.
- And I woke up one day and to basically the bleeding, the miscarriage basically.
- My mum, yeah, Yeah, my mum, she had a load of miscarriages.
- She thought that he would leave her if he knew that she'd had a miscarriage.
Examples
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I'm pregnant after a failed IVF cycle, after three miscarriages in a row.
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Is there any significant past obstetric history, such as premature labor, miscarriage, or pre-eclampsia?
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So that was my first miscarriage and I moved to Mexico and I got married again.
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I remember when we were talking, I said something about miscarriage as we were in the middle of that interview.
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After the miscarriage, they went away.
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Actually, about four months ago I did have a miscarriage.
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I told them I had a miscarriage.
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And that was after six miscarriages for the previous six years.
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The doctor said your sister had three miscarriages in the last two years.
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However, most miscarriages are unpreventable and caused by factors beyond a person's control.
Synonyms
Loss of a pregnancy that happens naturally before the baby is born
Antonyms
How Frequent
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Miscarriage comes from the parts mis- meaning 'wrong' and carry meaning 'to take or hold'. So a miscarriage was originally something that was not 'carried' to the end, which helps you remember it as the loss of a pregnancy before the baby can live on its own.