[[Fasciculus:AngkorWatAbortionAD1150.JPG|thumb|In [[Caelamen|caelamine]] apud [[Angkor]] Wat [[Cambodia]]e circa annum [[1150]] caelato, [[daemon]] pistor mulieris abdomine gravidae [[pistillum]] applicans contritione abortum inducit.<ref>{{cite book |author=Potts M ''et al.'' |title=Thousand-year-old depictions of massage abortion |journal=Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care |volume=33 |pages=234 |year=2007 |quote=at Angkor, the operator is a demon.}} Vide etiam {{cite book |author=Mould R |title=Mould's Medical Anecdotes |pages=406 |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |year=1996}}</ref>]]
'''Abortus'''<ref name="Castelli1713">Castelli, B. & Bruno, J.P (1713). ''Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum.'' LeipzigLipsiae: F. Thomas</ref><ref name="Lewis & Short">Lewis, C.T. & Short, C. (1879). ''A Latin dictionary founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary.'' OxfordOxoniae: Clarendon Press.</ref> {{victio|Abortus|us|m}} vel '''abortum'''<ref name="Lewis & Short"/> {{victio|Abortum|i|n}} vel '''abortio'''<ref name="Lewis & Short"/> {{victio|Abortio|nis|f}} vel '''aborsus'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/><ref name="Lewis & Short"/> {{victio|Aborsus|us|m}} vel '''aborsio'''<ref name="Kraus1844">Kraus, L.A. (1844). ''Kritisch-etymologisches medicinisches Lexikon'' (Dritteeditio Auflagetertia). GöttingenGottingae: Verlag der Deuerlich- und Dieterichschen Buchhandlung.</ref><ref name="Gabler1881">Gabler, E. & Winkler, T.C. (1881). ''Latijnsch-Hollandsch woordenboek over de geneeskunde en de natuurkundige wetenschappen.'' (Tweede druk). LeidenLugduni: A.W. Sijthoff.</ref> vel '''abortium'''<ref name="Kraus1844"/><ref name="Foster1891">Foster, F.D. (1891-1893). ''An illustrated medical dictionary. Being a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French, and German languages.'' NewNovi YorkEboraci: D. Appleton and Company.</ref> vel '''examblosis'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/><ref name="Kossmann1896">Kossmann, R. (1896). Die pathologisch-anatomischen Kunstausdrücke in der Gynäcologie. ''Monatsschrift für Geburtshülfe und Gynaekologie, 3''(6), 503-524.</ref><ref name="Kossmann1903">Kossmann, R. (1903). ''Allgemeine Gynaecologie.'' BerlinBerolini: Verlag von August Hirschwald.</ref> vel '''exambloma'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/><ref name="Kraus1844"/> vel '''ectrosis'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/><ref name="Kraus1844"/><ref name="Kossmann1903"/> vel '''ectrosmos'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/> vel '''ectrosmus'''<ref name="Kraus1844"/> vel '''apophthora'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/><ref name="Kraus1844"/><ref name="Gabler1881"/> vel '''diaphthora'''<ref name="Castelli1713"/><ref name="Kraus1844"/><ref name="Gabler1881"/> est finis [[graviditas|graviditatis]] immatura, per amotionem vel expulsionem [[fetusembryo]]nis vel [[embryofetus]]nis ex [[uterus|utero]] ante [[viabilitas fetus|viabilitatem]] effecta, quod eius [[mors|mortem]] consequitur vel efficit.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/?id=KiRHpRl7TjsC&pg=PA173 |title=Gynaecology for Lawyers |author=T. Dutt et M. P. Matthews |volume=14 |series-title=Medico-legal practitioner series |publisher=Routledge |year=[[1998]] |isbn=9781859412152}}.</ref> Abortus casu accidere potest propter [[complicatio (medicina)|complicationes]] per graviditatem, vel induci potest, in [[homo|hominibus]] et aliis [[species (taxinomis)|speciebus]]. In graviditatibus humanis, abortus inductus ut [[salus|sanitatem]] [[femina (sexus)|mulieris]] gravidae conservetur ''abortum therapeuticum'' appellatur, dum ob omnes alias causas animo non solum extirpandi sed etiam mactandi fetum ''abortum electivum'' sive ''aborticidium'' ac ''embryoctonia'' appellatur et in plurimis terris lege prohibetur. In nonnullis [[lingua|linguis]], nomen sicut ''abortus'' saepissime ad abortum graviditatis inductum refert, dum abortus spontaneus aliis [[vocabulum|vocabulis]] aliquando appellatur, sicut ''malparto'' in [[lingua Hispanica]] et ''miscarriage'' in [[lingua Anglica]].
