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abortives

abortives is the plural of abortive.

abortives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abortive.

Meaning of abortive

Noun

abortive (plural abortives)

  1. (obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
  2. (obsolete) A fruitless effort.
  3. (obsolete) A medicine that causes abortion, an abortifacient.
  4. (obsolete) A medicine or treatment acting to halt or slow the progress of a disease.
    • Naphthalin was praised by Rosbach as an abortive in typhoid fever; Kraemer in 1886, Wilcox in 1887, Sehwald in 1889 and Wolff of Philadelphia in 1891 confirmed Rosbach's observations.1897 August 7, E. Viko, “On the Treatment of Typhoid Fever”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 29, number 6, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 274

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Questions about abortives

What is abortives the plural of?
Abortives is the plural of abortive.

Words near abortives in the dictionary

  1. abortive
  2. abortived
  3. abortively
  4. abortiveness
  5. abortivenesses
  6. abortives
  7. abortiving
  8. abortivity
  9. abortment
  10. abortments
  11. abortogenic

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