title: Understanding miscarriage or insensitive abortion: time for more defined terminology?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Memorial Hospital, Darlington, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Hutchon
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D009626:Terminology as Topic