abortion

Abortion是一個英語單詞，用作名詞，可翻譯為流產、墮胎、失敗。

基本信息

[əˈbɔ:ʃn]

n.流產，墮胎，失敗

複數：abortions

adj. abortive

adv. abortively

n. aborionist

詞典釋義

柯林斯Cobuild英語學習詞典Collins Cobuild Learner's Dictionary:

An abortion is a medical operation in which a pregnancy is deliberately ended by removing an unwanted baby from a woman's body.

牛津簡明英語詞典The Concise Oxfored Dictionary (Ninth Edition):

1. the expulsion of a foetus (natuallly or esp. by medical induction) from the womb before it is able to survive independently, esp. in the first 28 weeks of a human pragnency.
2. a stunted or deformed creature or thing.
3. the failure of a project or an action
4. Biol, the arrest of the development of an organ or embryo