salt out
English
Verb
salt 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.
- 1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know (page 29)