habitual aborter

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habitual aborter (plural habitual aborters)

  1. (medicine) A person who has had three or more consecutive miscarriages due to an underlying condition.[1]
    • 1826, William Dewees, chapter 9, in A Treatise on the Diseases of Females[2], Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 118:
      For habitual aborters, are very rarely attacked with the more common affections belonging to pregnancy.

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  1. ^ Lynn Friedman, A Woman Doctor’s Guide to Miscarriage, New York: Hyperion, 1996, p. 161.[1]