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What does miscarriage mean?

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Noun
  1. (miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
  2. The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]
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Alcohol abuse can cause mental retardation, malformation, growth retardation, miscarriage, and behavioral disorders in infants.
You see the main complication of an amnio is that it can cause a miscarriage in a proportion of women.
Measles in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, premature labour or a baby with low birth weight.
The community, seeing the whole affair as a great miscarriage of justice, will welcome them back with open arms.
She had been starving herself for so long, and she induced a miscarriage on herself.
But it's also a miscarriage of justice when delays and time-wasting deny victims justice for months on end.

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