Frommis- +abort.
misabort (third-person singular simple presentmisaborts,present participlemisaborting,simple past and past participlemisaborted)
- (rare) Tospontaneouslyabort.
1991, D. T. Y. Liu,A Practical Guide to Chorion Villus Sampling, page117:Between 6 and 9 per cent of our patients referred for diagnosis miscarry ormisabort before villus sampling is carried out.
2001, Cynthia A. Williams, Charles A. Williams, Deborah McMullan,One of Those Women, page37:I just had an IUD removed, and the baby I was carrying with the IUDmisaborted.
2013, Mitchell S. Golbus, D. T. Y. Liu, E. M. Symonds,Chorion Villus Sampling, page93:One fetus showed an abnormal cytogenetic pattern (45,XO) and thismisaborted during the first trimester while the other fetus continued to do well.