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abortifactive

abortifactive adjective: inducing abortion or miscarriage.

Adjective

abortifactive (not comparable)

  1. Inducing abortion or miscarriage.
    • […] abortifactive agents such as Brucella abortus and Tritrichomonas foetus are not present in the Swedish bovine population […]2003, Susanne Stenlund, Hans Kindahl, Arvid Uggla, Camilla Björkman, “A Long-Term Study of Neospora caninum Infection in a Swedish Dairy Herd”, in Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, volume 44, number 2...
    • Complete necropsies, abortion panels to rule out other abortifactive agents, serum Ig levels, and aoEBA-specific immunohistochemistry (IHC) were performed on each fetus to confirm EBA diagnosis.2011, Roxann S. Brooks, Myra T. Blanchard, Mark L. Anderson, Mark R. Hall, Jeffery L. Stott, “Quantitative duplex TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction for the assessment of the etiologic agent...
    Synonyms:
    abortifacient

Examples of abortifactive in a sentence

  • […] a high degree of seropositivity to N. caninum was diagnosed after evaluating for various abortifactive agents.2015, Priya Bapodra, Barbara A Wolfe, “Investigation of Neospora caninum seroprevalence and potential impact on reproductive success in...
  • Abortion panels were conducted to identify fetal/neonatal losses due to other abortifactive agents.2022, Myra T. Blanchard, Mike B. Teglas, Mark L. Anderson, Peter F. Moore, Bret R. McNabb, Kassidy M. Collins, Bret V. Yeargan, Jeffrey L....
  • REMINDER: Steroids may be abortifactive for gravid females; be willing to live by the consequences.2024, “Chemical Immobilization, Capture and Handling:”, in Yellowstone Grizzly Project, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2024:

Synonyms of abortifactive

Origin of abortifactive

Parallel in formation with abortifacient (which see).

Questions about abortifactive

What does abortifactive mean?
Abortifactive means inducing abortion or miscarriage.
How do you use abortifactive in a sentence?
[…] a high degree of seropositivity to N. caninum was diagnosed after evaluating for various abortifactive agents.
What part of speech is abortifactive?
Abortifactive is an adjective.

Words near abortifactive in the dictionary

  1. aborticides
  2. abortient
  3. abortients
  4. abortifacient
  5. abortifacients
  6. abortifactive
  7. abortificant
  8. abortificants
  9. abortificient
  10. abortigenic
  11. abortin

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