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ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG

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Dictionary entry overview: What does abortion-inducing drug mean?

• ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG (noun)
The noun ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG has 1 sense:

1. a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion

Familiarity information: ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aborticide; abortifacient; abortion-inducing drug

Hypernyms ("abortion-inducing drug" is a kind of...):

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abortion-inducing drug"):

abortion pill; mifepristone; RU 486 (an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU_486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo)

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