Synonyms:
spontaneous_abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth
Meaning: a natural loss of the products of conception
Synonyms:
miscarriage, abortion
Meaning: failure of a plan
Usage examples
The deficiency created by the miscarriage of an undertaking is soon filled up by fresh hopes; for they alone are enabled to call a thing hoped for a thing got, by the speed with which they act upon their resolutions.
In former times every woman who gave birth to a child or passed through a miscarriage was exposed to grave danger of infection or child-bed fever; but at present--thanks to the recognition of the bacterial origin of the disease and of its identity with wound infection--this danger can be practically eliminated by the rigid observance of surgical cleanliness and aseptic technique.