"Partial-Birth"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> No, but _partial-birth abortion_ is in OED.

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.

Fred Shapiro


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