Abortion Flashcards
Definition
It is expulsion of the contents of the gravid uterus by any means and at any time before full term.
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.
TYPES OF ABORTION
I . Spontaneous abortion
II. Induced abortion
Therapeutic abortion
legal abortion
to save the mother’s life
Criminal abortion
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
Methods of induction of criminal abortion, general violence?
Cycling, jumping from the height
Local violence
Method use by the nonprofessional person
• 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.
Local violence
Method used by the medically trained person:
• Introduced a catheter or dilatation and curettage operation.
Local violence