A surgical or medicinal procedure that terminates a pregnancy by removing the fetus; a therapeutic abortion. It is a non-contraceptive form of birth control.
In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
Rapid reiteration of the same sound.