salt out

English

Verb

salt out (third-person singular simple present salts out, present participle salting out, simple past and past participle salted out)

1. (medicine, transitive) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
   • 1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29:

     If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.

   • 2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279:

     […] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus.

2. (chemistry, of a solute) To precipitate out of a solution.
3. (chemistry) To cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.

Related terms

• salting out

Anagrams

• last out, outlast