partial-birth abortion

noun

: dilation and extraction

… upholding a ban on so-called partial-birth abortion, a nonmedical term devised by the powerful antichoice lobby to attack a particular late-term abortion procedure.

—Edd Doerr

Word History

First Known Use

1995, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for partial-birth abortion

• apportion
• contortion
• distortion
• extortion
• proportion
• disproportion
• portion
• torsion

Medical Definition

partial-birth abortion

noun

par·​tial-birth abortion ˈpär-shəl- 

: dilation and extraction

Antiabortion-rights activists created an attention-getting, less clinical name for D&X—"partial-birth abortion" …

—Mary Leonard, The Boston Globe