Abortion

(a-bor's hun.) [From L. aborior, I perish.] (Med.) The unnatural expulsion of the fetus after the sixth week, and before the sixth month, of pregnancy. Before the sixth week it is termed a miscarriage, and after the sixth month a premature labor. In most of the States, the crime of procuring A. is a misdemeanor. (Bot.) The suppre ion, absence, or non-development of an organ, the existence of which is either a umed by analogy, or detected by accidental conditions of the same plants. [s. 3]