Understanding miscarriage or insensitive abortion: time for more defined terminology?
A search of the two major journals of obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States has shown that the word abortion rather than miscarriage to describe early pregnancy loss is 6 times more likely to be used compared with most other English language journals over the last 5 years. The use of miscarriage, with descriptive adjectives such as threatened, incomplete, and complete, is recommended and the term delayed miscarriage is suggested in place of missed abortion.
Hutchon
D J
DJ
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom.
D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D009626:Terminology as Topic