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parectasis (medicine) and Abortive (health)


parectasis (medicine)


parectasis


Parectasia

An obsolete term for extreme distention of a cavity or Other part.

Origin: G. Parektasis, extrusion, fr. Para, beside, + ektasis, extension


Abortive (health)


The word "abortive" has a number of meanings including prematurely born; fruitless or unsuccessful; imperfectly formed or developed; tending to cut short. In medicine, "abortive" has two meanings: one, causing abortion, as an "abortive medicine," is rarely used nowadays; the Other meaning, that of tending to cut short is quite commonly used in medicine, as in the "abortive treatment of typhoid fever" or "abortive polio": polio cut short.