# Pregnancy loss

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**Pregnancy loss** is the loss of an embryo or fetus. The terms [early pregnancy loss](/source/Early_pregnancy_loss) and [late pregnancy loss](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Late_pregnancy_loss&action=edit&redlink=1) are often used but there is no consensus over their definitions.

## Unintentional pregnancy loss

- [Miscarriage](/source/Miscarriage) - [Toxic abortion](/source/Toxic_abortion), caused by pollution or chemical exposures

- [Implantation failure](/source/Implantation_failure)

- [Molar pregnancy](/source/Molar_pregnancy)

- [Embryo loss](/source/Embryo_loss)

- [Fetal resorption](/source/Fetal_resorption)

- [Blighted ovum](/source/Blighted_ovum)

- [Vanishing twin](/source/Vanishing_twin)

- [Stillbirth](/source/Stillbirth)

## Pregnancy loss through termination

- [Foeticide](/source/Foeticide) - [Abortion](/source/Abortion) - [Selective reduction](/source/Selective_reduction) to reduce the number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy - [Hysterotomy abortion](/source/Hysterotomy_abortion), a surgical abortion of a non-viable fetus performed similar to a cesarean section - [Late-term abortion](/source/Late-term_abortion) - [Self-induced abortion](/source/Self-induced_abortion) - [Sex-selective abortion](/source/Sex-selective_abortion) - [Forced abortion](/source/Forced_abortion) - [Child destruction](/source/Child_destruction)

## See also

- [Pregnancy with abortive outcome](/source/Pregnancy_with_abortive_outcome)

- [Perinatal mortality](/source/Perinatal_mortality)

- [Murder of pregnant women](/source/Murder_of_pregnant_women)

- [Death of a child](/source/Death_of_a_child)

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