Abortion Flashcards

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Definition

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It is expulsion of the contents of the gravid uterus by any means and at any time before full term.

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CONDITIONS IN WHICH A FEMALE IS EXAMINED FOR SIGNS OF ABORTION
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• A woman alleging abortion after a blow or a kick in a quarrel to inflect more penalty on the assailant.
• A woman notifying that abortion occurs to her by a medical man, e.g. giving her an abortefacient drug.
• A woman wishing to conceal abortion after being charged with it.
• A dead body of a woman died after abortion to investigate the cause of death.

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TYPES OF ABORTION

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I . Spontaneous abortion
II. Induced abortion

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4
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Therapeutic abortion

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legal abortion

to save the mother’s life

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Criminal abortion

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illegal abortion

medical man, other person , woman herself for any reason other than saving the mother’s life.

Even with the consent of the women

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Methods of induction of criminal abortion, general violence?

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Cycling, jumping from the height

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Local violence
Method use by the nonprofessional person

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• Insert foreign into uterus ( kitting needle - wood stick ) cause abortion by rupture of the membrane.
• introduced blood, containing some irritation substance into the vagina to irritate the uterus and initiate its contractions.
• insert a douche nozzle and forcibly flushing the uterus the fluid separates the sac from the interior of the uterus and disturbs the pregnancy.

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8
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Local violence
Method used by the medically trained person:

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• Introduced a catheter or dilatation and curettage operation.

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Local violence

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