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Abortus

Definition: Abortus

Abortus

Noun

1. A human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Abortus

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
ABREnglishAbortus Bang Ring TestFood & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
ABRGermanAbortus Bang-RingprobeFood & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Abortus

Specialty definitions using "abortus": bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella melitensis, Brucella Vaccine, Brucellosis, Bovineinfectious abortion. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Abortus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (abortion), Danish (abortion), Dutch (abortion, failure, miscarriage), Indonesian (abortion), Latin (abortion, miscarriage), Serbo-Croatian (abortion).

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Modern Usage: Abortus

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Van breinaald tot politiek steekspel Abortus (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Abortus

DomainTitle

Books

  • Abortus in multicultureel Nederland (reference)

  • Abortus Provokatus Bagi Korban Perkosaan: Perspektif Viktimologi Kriminologi Dan Hukum Pidana (reference)

  • Abortus voor het kind (reference)

  • Abortus, pro en contra (reference)

  • De abortus (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Abortus

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Brucella species, usually B. abortus (cattle), B. melitensis, B.ovis (sheep, and goats), B. suis (pigs), and rarely B. canis (dogs). (references)

Develop a serologic test to detect infection by a recently introduced new live B. abortus vaccine (RB-51). Brucella spp. have a high probability for use in biologic terrorism. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Abortus

Expressions using "abortus": Brucella abortus Brucella abortus infection. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Abortus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abortus

85

brucella abortus

22

abortus tegen

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Abortus

Language Translations for "abortus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

anti-Brucella abortus (anti-brucella abortus), ABR-proeve (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), ABR (Abortus Bang Ring Test), abortus-ringproeve (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), smitsom kastning hos kvaeg (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), smitsom kastning (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), kvaegbrucellose (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), infektiøs abort (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), Bang's syge (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

anti Brucella abortus (anti-brucella abortus), Abortus Bang Ringproef (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), ziekte van Bang (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), verwerpen van vee (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), infectieuze abortus (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever, undulant fever), brucellosis Bang (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever, undulant fever), brucellosis (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever, undulant fever), brucellose (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella suis infection, contagious abortion, contagious abortion of sows, infectious abortion, porcine brucellosis, swine brucellosis), besmettelijk verwerpen (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella suis infection, contagious abortion, contagious abortion of sows, infectious abortion, porcine brucellosis, swine brucellosis), Bang-infectie (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever, undulant fever). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

luomistauti (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

   

French

  

anti-Brucella abortus (anti-brucella abortus), anti-avortement brucellique (anti-brucella abortus), test de Bang (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), maladie de Bang (abortus fever), brucellose bovine (Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

   

German

  

Anti-Brucella abortus (anti-brucella abortus), ABR-Probe (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), ABR (Abortus Bang Ring Test), Abortus infectiosus (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), Abortus Bang-Ringprobe (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), Abortus Bang (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), seuchenhaftes Verwerfen (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), infektiöser Abort (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), Febris undulans Bang (abortus fever), Brucellose des Rindes (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), Bangsche Krankheit (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), Bang-Krankheit (abortus fever). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατά της B.abortus (anti-brucella abortus), επιζωστική αποβολή (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), επιζωστική διακοπή της κύησης (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

   

Italian

  

anti-Brucella abortus (anti-brucella abortus), aborto infettivo (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), aborto epizootico (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), aborto contagioso (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), prova di Bang (Abortus Bang Ring Test, ABR-test), malattia o morbo di Bang (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), brucellosi dei bovini (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), brucellosi bovina (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abortusay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

anti-Brucella-abortus (anti-brucella abortus), aborto infeccioso (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), aborto epizoótico (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

antiaborto brucelar (anti-brucella abortus), aborto infeccioso (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), aborto contagioso (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion), brucellosis bovina (Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, contagious abortion, infectious abortion). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Abortus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: robusta, rubatos, tabours.

Words within the letters "a-b-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: aborts, boarts, robust, rubato, tabors, tabour, turbos.

-2 letters: abort, about, abuts, autos, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, borts, botas, bouts, brats, buras, bursa, burst, ratos, roast, rotas, roust, routs, sabot, stour, sutra, tabor, tabus, taros, toras, torus, tours, tsuba, tubas, turbo.

-3 letters: abos, abut, arbs, arts, auto, bars, bast, bats, boar, boas, boat, bora, bort, bota, bots, bout, bras, brat, bros, brut, bura, burs, bust, buts, oars, oast, oats, orbs, orts, osar, ours, oust, outs, rato, rats, robs, rota, rots, rout, rubs, rust, ruts, soar, sora, sorb, sort, sour, stab, star, stoa, stob, stub, suba, sura, tabs, tabu, taos, taro, tars, taus, tora, tors, tour, tsar, tuba, tubs, urbs, ursa, utas.

-4 letters: abo, abs, arb, ars, art, bar, bas, bat, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, bur, bus, but, oar, oat, ora, orb, ors, ort, our, out, ras, rat, rob, rot, rub, rut, sab, sat, sau, sob, sot, sou, sub, tab, tao, tar, tas, tau, tor, tub, urb, uta, uts.

-5 letters: ab, ar, as, at, ba, bo, or, os, so, ta, to, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-o-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outbarks, outbrags, robustas, saboteur, surfboat, tambours.

 

+2 letters: abductors, absoluter, breakouts, marabouts, obscurant, obturates, outboards, outbraves, outbrawls, outbreaks, runabouts, saboteurs, stirabout, subrogate, surfboats, tabourers, tabourets, tambouras, turbocars, turbofans.

 

+3 letters: abductores, abruptions, arboretums, backcourts, brontosaur, hereabouts, incubators, obituaries, obituarist, objurgates, obscurants, obturators, rouseabout, roustabout, stirabouts, subcordate, subjugator, suborbital, subrogated, subrogates, tabulators, tambourers, turboshaft, turnabouts.

 

+4 letters: abjurations, atrabilious, barracoutas, brontosaurs, buccinators, burgomaster, carburetors, construable, fibromatous, houseboater, lubricators, masturbator, obfuscatory, obituarists, obscurantic, obscuration, obturations, outbargains, roundabouts, roundtables, rouseabouts, roustabouts, rubricators, rubythroats, subcategory, subcontract, subcontrary, subcortical, subjugators, sublittoral, subordinate, subornation, subrational, subrogating, subrogation, subtraction, subtropical, supportable, tambourines, thereabouts, troubadours, turboshafts, unabsorbent, unobservant, whereabouts.

 

+5 letters: adumbrations, ambidextrous, ambulatories, attributions, beardtongues, bifurcations, boatbuilders, brontosaurus, burgomasters, carburetions, carburettors, constabulary, conurbations, counterblast, houseboaters, lubrications, lucubrations, masturbation, masturbators, masturbatory, nimbostratus, obdurateness, objurgations, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, prosecutable, rambouillets, rambunctious, rubrications, subcontracts, subeditorial, suberization, sublittorals, subnormality, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, subornations, subrogations, subtractions, supraorbital, surmountable, thoroughbass, tribulations, urbanisation, urbanologist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Abortus


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 62 6F 72 74 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    ---    .-.    -    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100010 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 006F 0072 0074 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35688184868785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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