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Keywords: fruitless, naught, miscarrying, stillborn, ineffectual

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.

Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.

A fruitless effort or issue.

Keywords: rudimentary, imperfectly, undeveloped, stamen, sterile

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

arrested in development; rudimentary

Undeveloped; rudimentary.

Keywords: prematurely, born, vellum, brought, forth

Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.

That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.

Keywords: transduction, ineffective, transducing, begun, failure

transduction The failure of a transducing DNA segment to be incorporated into the recipient chromosome.

Ineffective, implying failure before action has begun or been completed.

Keywords: typhoid, fever, treatment, cutting, short

Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

Keywords: medicine, causing, attributed, called, property

Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.

A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion; -- also called an abortifacient.

Keywords: actual

Actual

Same as Abortifacient