Prolicide \Prol"i*cide\, n. [L. proles offspring + caedere to kill.] The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
PROLICIDE, med. jurisp. Medical jurists have employed this word to designate the destruction of the human divided the subject into foeticide, (q.v.) or the destruction of the foetus in utero; and infanticide, (q.v.) or the destruction of the new-born infant. Ryan, Med. Jur. 137.