GLOSSARY OF MEDICAL TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME.

Abortion: As soon as the male sperm has met and joined with the female ova any attempt at removing it or preventing its development or further growth is called Abortion. Abortion is not to be confused with the prevention of conception. The practice of Birth Control, founded on the prevention of conception will eventually do away with the necessity of abortion.

Abortion: the expulsion of the fetus before it is viable.—Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.

Abortion: the arrest of any action or process before its normal completion, as the abortion of pneumonia.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Birth: the delivery of a child—Gould’s Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary.

Birth Control: a new social philosophy dedicated to conscious and voluntary motherhood, and racial betterment.

Conception: the act of becoming pregnant.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Conception: the fecundation of the ovum by the spermatozoon.—Gould’s Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary.

Contraception: the prevention of conception.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Contraceptive: anything used to prevent conception.—Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.

Contraceptive: an agent for the prevention of conception.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Fecundation: impregnation or fertilization.—Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.

Fetus: the unborn offspring of any viviparous animal; the child in the womb after the end of the third month: before that time it is called the embryo.

Malthusianism: (Thomas Robert Malthus, English political economist, 1766–1834). The doctrine that population increases in geometrical progression; and the teaching, founded on this doctrine, that over-population should be prevented.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Doctrine of Malthus: the doctrine that the increase of population is proportionately greater than the increase of subsistence.—Gould’s Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary.

Theory of Malthus: that small families will abolish poverty and disease; recommends continence and late marriage to bring about this result.

251Theory of Neo-Malthusians: that small families will abolish poverty and disease; recommends early marriage and use of preventive checks to bring about this result.

Pregnancy: gestation, fetation, gravidity.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Pregnancy: results from the meeting and fusion of two living cells, the cell furnished by the male (spermatozoon) and that by the female (ovum). To avoid or to prevent conception or pregnancy, then, consists of stopping the male cell from uniting with the female cell.

Prevention of Conception: to prevent the male sperm from meeting the female ova.

Prevention of Conception: the only logical and practical means for eliminating abortions when a child cannot be carried to full term.

Preventive: anything which arrests the threatened onset of disease.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

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