foeticide

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foeticide - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Foeticide \F[oe]"ti*cide\, n.
     Same as Feticide.
     [1913 Webster]

  Feticide \Fe"ti*cide\ (? or ?), n. [Written also f[oe]ticide.]
     [Fetus + L. caedere to kill.] (Med. & Law)
     The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of
     procuring an abortion.
     [1913 Webster]

foeticide - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FOETICIDE, med. jur. Recently, this term has been applied to designate the 
  act by which criminal abortion is produced. 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 288; Guy, 
  Med. Jur. 133. See Infanticide; Prolicide.