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Prolicide

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into foeticide or the destruction of the fœtus in utero, and infanticide or the destruction of the new-born infant.

Ry. Med. Jur. 280.