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salt out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
    • […] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus. 2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279:
    • If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed. 1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29:
  2. (of a solute) To precipitate out of a solution.
  3. To cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.

Forms

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salting out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
salts out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
salted out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
salted out Tense=Past lexicographic