miscarriage
nounUK /ˈmɪskaɹɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.əd͡ʒ/
Etymology From mis- + carriage.
1
A failure; a mistake or error.
Now rare except in miscarriage of justice
- for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Medicine, Sciences The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
- Derived terms
- antimiscarriage, delayed miscarriage, missed miscarriage, silent miscarriage