"Partial-Birth"

[Wilson Gray]

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," 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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