"Partial-Birth"

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:04 PM -0400 4/20/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Does it also have "D&E," the term used in the 'hood in L.A. since the
>'60's? A local ho once told me that she was unable to get a D&E as a
>treatment for dysmenorrhea because the doctor felt that she was trying
>to scam him into carrying out an abortion. No. Wait. Sorry. She
>actually said "D&C" or "... curettement,"

"Dilation & Curettage", no?

>  in her particular case,
>given that the dysmenorrhea had rendered her sterile, which was not a
>problem, since she wasn't interested in having any trick-babies.
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 4/20/07, Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Fred Shapiro wrote:
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>>>My bad.  I searched for "partial birth" in the online OED and nothing
>>>came up.  I guess I should have moved on to examining the entry for
>>>"partial," where I would have found it.
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>>When searching for word phrases in the OED, I always use the Advanced Search
>>facility and do a full-text search. If I get too many hits, I then narrow
>>the search to "lemma," "quotation text," or whatever seems appropriate in
>>that case.
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>>This also has the advantage of turning up related words and phrases. In this
>>case, "dilation and extraction" also comes up.
>>
>>--Dave Wilton
>>   dave at wilton.net
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