abortifactive

English

Etymology

From abort +‎ factive.

Adjective

abortifactive (not comparable)

(pharmacology) Inducing abortion or miscarriage, abortifacient.
- 2003, Susanne Stenlund, Hans Kindahl, Arvid Uggla, Camilla Björkman, “A Long-Term Study of Neospora caninum Infection in a Swedish Dairy Herd”, in Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica‎^[1], volume 44, number 2, pages 63-71:
  […] abortifactive agents such as Brucella abortus and Tritrichomonas foetus are not present in the Swedish bovine population […]
- 2011, Roxann S. Brooks, Myra T. Blanchard, Mark L. Anderson, Mark R. Hall, Jeffery L. Stott, “Quantitative duplex TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction for the assessment of the etiologic agent of epizootic bovine abortion”, in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation‎^[2], volume 23, number 6, pages 1153-1159:
  Complete necropsies, abortion panels to rule out other abortifactive agents, serum Ig levels, and aoEBA-specific immunohistochemistry (IHC) were performed on each fetus to confirm EBA diagnosis.
- 2015, Priya Bapodra, Barbara A Wolfe, “Investigation of Neospora caninum seroprevalence and potential impact on reproductive success in semi-freeranging Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus)”, in Veterinary Record Open‎^[3], volume 2, number 1:
  […] a high degree of seropositivity to N. caninum was diagnosed after evaluating for various abortifactive agents.
- 2022, Myra T. Blanchard, Mike B. Teglas, Mark L. Anderson, Peter F. Moore, Bret R. McNabb, Kassidy M. Collins, Bret V. Yeargan, Jeffrey L. Stott, “Protection of Cattle against Epizootic Bovine Abortion (EBA) Using a Live Pajaroellobacter abortibovis Vaccine”, in Vaccines (Basel)‎^[4], volume 10, number 2, page 335:
  Abortion panels were conducted to identify fetal/neonatal losses due to other abortifactive agents.
- 2024, “Chemical Immobilization, Capture and Handling:”, in Yellowstone Grizzly Project‎^[5], archived from the original on 26 August 2024:
  REMINDER: Steroids may be abortifactive for gravid females; be willing to live by the consequences. Use only in life threatening circumstances for pregnant females.

Derived terms

abortifactive agent