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What is the noun for abortus?

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abortion

(medicine) The cessation of pregnancy or fetal development: [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

(medicine) A miscarriage. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
(still current) An induced abortion, the act or process of inducing the cessation of pregnancy. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

(dated) The immature product of an untimely birth. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
A monstrosity; a misshapen person. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
(figuratively) Failure of a promise or a goal. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
(biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
Any fruit or produce which is interrupted in its progress before it is matured or perfect; an idea, project, or anything that does not come to maturity.
(chiefly art) Something ugly, an artistic atrocity.
The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
An unpleasant or poorly executed idea or project.
The act of aborting (an undertaking, such as a project or trip).
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Examples:

“Nearly all those who decided against having an abortion were in the second trimester of pregnancy.”

“The military coup that overthrew the government in 1960 led to the abortion of the project before it even got underway.”

“I freely gave my opinion to Mr. Cherry that the whole colonization project was an abortion.”

abort

(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
(now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
(computing) The function used to abort a process.
(computing) An event involving the abort of a process.
Synonyms:

abend, crash, system crash, system error, program crash, program failure, program error, head crash

abortive

(obsolete) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. [Attested from around (1150 to 1350) until the mid 18th century.]
(obsolete) A fruitless effort or issue. [Attested from the early 17th century until the early 18th century.]
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.

abortionist

(now often historical) One who performs an illegal abortion in a non-medical setting (a back street, a hotel room, etc).
(pejorative) An abortion provider; one who performs a legal abortion.
(offensive) One who favors abortion being legal. [since the late 19th century]
Examples:

“Let us keep the backyard abortionist out and legalised abortion in as a human right.”

“I want the extreme anti abortionist to understand the woes and difficulties.”

“Some claim we're violent, because every ten years or so, some mentally-deranged person, claiming to be pro-life, kills an abortionist.”

abortus

An abortion. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
Examples:

“Animals seldom present with symptoms, although B. abortus can cause cattle to abort.”

“Vaccinated guinea pigs also withstood an experimental challenge of 5,000colony-forming units of a locally isolated virulent B. abortus strain.”

“This indicates abortus fever and brucellosis are synonyms of a single disease name and the term brucellosis has been chosen as the preferred term.”

aborticide

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. [late 19th century]
An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient.
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