miscarry

miscarriage | American Dictionary

miscarriage
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈmɪsˌkær·ɪdʒ/
an early, unintentional end to a pregnancy
 miscarriage of justice
A miscarriage of justice is a wrong decision in a court of law, or any unfair decision:
He spent nine years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit – it was a great miscarriage of justice.

Examples of miscarriage

miscarriage
But there were bound to be miscarriages of justice and suspicions that the personal ambitions of the judges had skewed the results.
In this study, poor previous maternal obstetric history was largely defined by previous miscarriages and stillbirths.
Clearly such women are unlikely to publicise their grief about infertility, miscarriages and ill-health.
Early gestational stress was avoided to avoid early fetal loss (miscarriage).
Insertion of a cervical suture may be useful when there is cervical weakness in a woman at risk of miscarriage or premature birth.
Observation of miscarriage and stillbirth led to the conclusion that these events were also consistently under-reported by the women.
The overall spontaneous miscarriage rate was 32.6%, ranging from 23.9% at age 40 years to 66.7% at age 45.
An effort to identify alternative causes of miscarriage is important before cervical cerclage is performed.
Two of the stillbirths recorded by the doctor only, were reported as miscarriages by the women.
Early miscarriage, before twelve weeks, can occur with a suture in situ.
During that time she had three miscarriages, five still-born babies and one child born alive who subsequently died of convulsions a few weeks after birth.
It may have been that there were unrecorded miscarriages or stillbirths between the births.
This would present clinically as early pregnancy loss and miscarriage and thus represent a potential cause of these clinical conditions.
Decidual/placental thrombosis is generally observed from examination of products of miscarriage, after a process of tissue destruction and in-ammation.
Anxiety was chiefly associated with fever and illness during the first year of life and maternal history of miscarriage and stillbirth.
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