partial abortion
- noun
- /ˈpɑrʧəl əˈbɔrʃən/
- Archaic
:
aborto parcial
- The clinic provided information about the risks associated with a partial abortion during the consultation.
Examples
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After the partial abortion, the patient was monitored to ensure her recovery was going well.
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The doctor explained that a partial abortion may leave some tissue in the uterus that needs further treatment.
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According to the hospital's operating register, common procedures also include evacuation of the uterus for partial abortion and caesarean section.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
Tissue from a pregnancy that stays inside the womb after a miscarriage or abortion
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'partial' (only partly) modifies 'abortion' (medical termination of a pregnancy), so the meaning—an abortion that is only partly completed or does not expel all products—is directly inferable from the parts. The pattern is a common, cross-linguistically transparent modifier-noun construction, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Partial abortion combines partial ('not complete') and abortion ('to end a pregnancy'). It creates the image of a pregnancy that is stopped but some pregnancy tissue stays inside, so it means an ending of pregnancy in which not all the pregnancy tissue comes out.
