A medical condition characterized by the premature termination or imperfect development of a fetus or embryo.
From Greek amblousthai 'to miscarry', composed of amblys 'dull, blunt' (suggesting incomplete development) + a medical suffix -osis. This is a medical/technical term from classical anatomy.
Amblosis is an archaic medical term that shows how doctors used to describe complications with pregnancy before modern medicine had better vocabulary—it literally means the process of the fetus becoming 'blunt' or incomplete.
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