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salt out

salt out verb: to abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.

Verb

salt out (third-person singular simple present salts out, present participle salting out, simple past and past participle salted out)

  1. (transitive) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
    • If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29
    • […] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus.2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279
  2. To precipitate out of a solution.
  3. To cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.

Forms of salt out

third-person singular presentsalts out
present participlesalting out
past participlesalted out
pastsalted out

Questions about salt out

What does salt out mean?
Salt out means to abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
What part of speech is salt out?
Salt out is a verb.
What is the past tense of salt out?
The past tense of salt out is salted out.

Words near salt out in the dictionary

  1. salt of tin
  2. salt of Venus
  3. salt of vitriol
  4. salt of wisdom
  5. salt of wormwood
  6. salt out
  7. salt pan
  8. salt pans
  9. salt pig
  10. salt pigs
  11. salt pork

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