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abortus

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abortus /abor·tus/ (ah-bor´tus) a fetus weighing less than 500 g or having completed less than 20 weeks gestational age at the time of expulsion from the uterus, having no chance of survival.
a·bor·tus (-bôrts)
n.
The product or products of an abortion.

abortus
[əbôr′təs]
any incompletely developed fetus that results from an abortion, particularly one weighing less than 500 g.

abortus
a dead or nonviable fetus.


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LeVier and her colleagues found that Brucella abortus with defective bacA enters mouse cells but can't create a chronic infection.
Jan de Bruijn, Geschiedenis van de abortus in Nederland (Amsterdam, 1979) 111.
tularensis MAT reactive results for possible cross-reactivity to this agent by using Brucella abortus slide antigen (Difco, Detroit, MI, USA) and the MAT.
 
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