M. C. Stopes,
H. G. Wells.
GLOSSARY OF MEDICAL TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME.
Abortion: As soon as the male sperm has met and joined with the female ova any attempt at removing it or preventing its development or further growth is called Abortion. Abortion is not to be confused with the prevention of conception. The practice of Birth Control, founded on the prevention of conception will eventually do away with the necessity of abortion.
Abortion: the expulsion of the fetus before it is viable.—Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.
Abortion: the arrest of any action or process before its normal completion, as the abortion of pneumonia.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.
Birth: the delivery of a child—Gould’s Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary.
Birth Control: a new social philosophy dedicated to conscious and voluntary motherhood, and racial betterment.
Conception: the act of becoming pregnant.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.
Conception: the fecundation of the ovum by the spermatozoon.—Gould’s Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary.