| EAB | elective abortion; Ethics Advisory Board |
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| EAV | equine abortion virus |
| EB | elective abortion; electron beam; elementary body; emotional behavior; endometrial biopsy; epidermol... |
| Gr1P0AB1 | one pregnancy, no births, one abortion |
| IAT | instillation abortion time; iodine azide test; invasive activity test |
| induced abortion | An abortion brought on purposefully by drugs or mechanical means. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| inevitable abortion | An abortion characterised by rupture of the membranes in the presence of cervical dilation in a previable pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infected abortion | A septic complication of an abortion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic abortion | An abortion induced because of the mother's physical or mental health, or to prevent birth of a deformed child or a child resulting from rape. (05 Mar 2000) |
| threatened abortion | <obstetrics> A clinical diagnosis that is made in females in the first trimester of pregnancy who present with vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain. This diagnosis can only be made after all other causes for these same symptoms have been excluded, through testing and physical examination. (27 Sep 1997) |
| elective abortion | The planned termination of a pregnancy. (27 Sep 1997) |
| enzootic abortion of ewes | A specific infectious abortion of sheep caused by Chlamydia psittaci. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epizootic bovine abortion | An infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros coriaceus and manifested as abortion or weak calves at birth; occurs in the foothills of California, Nevada, and Oregon. Synonym: foothill abortion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| equine abortion virus | <virology> A herpesvirus reported in the U.S. Europe, and South Africa, causing equine rhinopneumonitis and equine virus abortion. Synonym: equine abortion virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| equine virus abortion | A highly contagious abortion of mares, caused by equine rhinopneumonitis virus, a member of the family Herpesviridae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tubal abortion | The rupture of an oviduct, the seat of ectopic pregnancy, or extrusion of the product of conception through the fimbriated end of the oviduct; aborted ectopic pregnancy, the pregnancy having originated in the fallopian tubes. Synonym: aborted ectopic pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| foothill abortion | An infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros coriaceus and manifested as abortion or weak calves at birth; occurs in the foothills of California, Nevada, and Oregon. Synonym: foothill abortion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis | An epidemic, highly communicable but rather mild disease of sudden onset, caused by the epidemic gastroenteritis virus (especially Norwalk agent), with an incubation period of 16 to 48 hours and a duration of 1 to 2 days, which affects all age groups; infection is associated with some fever, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and headache, one or another of which may be predominant. Synonym: acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arthritis, infectious | Arthritis caused by bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasmas, viruses, fungi, or parasites. Bacterial arthritis is frequently caused by staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus pneumoniae, haemophilus influenzae, and neisseria gonorrhoeae. Viral arthritis is less common than bacterial arthritis and may be a manifestation of such viral diseases as mumps, rubella, hepatitis, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| avian infectious encephalomyelitis | <veterinary> A disease of very young chicks caused by a picornavirus and characterised by tremor, ataxia, somnolence, and finally death. Synonym: epidemic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |