salt out
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salt out (third-person singular simple present salts out, present participle salting out, simple past and past participle salted out)
- (medicine, transitive) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
- 1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29:
- If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.
- 2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279:
- […] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus.
- (chemistry, of a solute) To precipitate out of a solution.
- (chemistry) To cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.