Usage examples (34)

• The Latin word abortus means "miscarriage, premature, untimely birth".
• Burial of an abortus after forty days of gestation was required for issues of ritual purity.
• It was disturbing that about 30 percent of cattle farmers still used strain 19 vaccine on heifer calves with "brucella abortus".
• He never got round actually to doing it, but recorded the impulse as an interesting example of what Brucella abortus could do to a man.