| 单词 | kitchen table abortion |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen table abortion C1. As a modifier, designating medical procedures performed at home or outside a clinical setting, typically using makeshift implements, for reasons of urgency or expediency (sometimes signifying procedures done illegally); as in kitchen table abortion, kitchen table operation, kitchen table surgery, etc.In quot. 1915 with reference to a surgical procedure that is simple to perform. ΚΠ 1915 Western Med. Times Nov. 201/2 I..did a curettement and packed the uterus with iodoform gauze... The operation is so simple, not even requiring trained assistants that it might be termed the ‘kitchen table operation’. 1972 Free Press (Trumansburg, N.Y.) 26 Oct. Women and young girls risked their lives, and often lost them, in motel room or kitchen-table abortions. 2013 Chron. Higher Educ. (Nexis) 18 Nov. She watched a nurse's aide pull a bullet out of one boy in an off-the-books, kitchen-table surgery. < as lemmas |
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