单词 | feticide |
释义 | feticiden. The killing of an embryo or fetus, esp. as a deliberate act; induced abortion; an instance or case of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of fetus > [noun] embryoctony1788 feticide1820 1820 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 43 1 (title) On feticide. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 365 Foeticide and abortion are meant..to be included under..infant murder. 1886 Med. & Surg. Reporter 10 July 43/2 Meningeal hemorrhage is common in infanticides and fœticides. 1889 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) viii. 49 The value of fœticide treatment. 1925 E. A. Rout Morality of Birth Control 55 A little higher up in the evolution of the race, foeticide tends to replace infanticide. 1983 Newsweek 23 May 87/3 Whatever causes the miscarriages, feticide (the killing of unborn offspring) does allow the dominant stallions to quickly pass their genes on to the next generation. 2003 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 19/5 The falling sex ratio across Punjab prompted the Akal Takht, Sikhism's supreme religious and temporal seat, to issue an edict last year banning female foeticide. Derivatives ˌfetiˈcidal adj. [after French fœticide, adjective (1854 in the passage translated in quot. 1859, or earlier)] of, relating to, or of the nature of feticide. ΚΠ 1859 G. Whitley tr. P. Diday Treat. Syphilis New-born Children iii. ii. 140 This progressive spontaneous declension of the fœticidal action [Fr. action fœticide] exercised by syphilis in the parents is fortunately a reality demonstrated by numerous examples. 1985 R. Keiper Assateague Ponies ix. 60 Because mares come into estrus when pregnancy is terminated, some scientists suggest that stallions practice feticidal behavior. 2012 Contraception 85 142/2 The risk/benefit equation argues against routine feticidal digoxin injection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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