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fetus
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ IGF2R helps stop the fetus from overgrowing the womb. ▪ Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told of one woman who had the procedure done after discovering her fetus had no brain. ▪ The psychological advantages or disadvantages on woman and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Canada US English) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. 2 (context Canada US English) A human embryo after the 8 th week of gestation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "the young while in the womb or egg" (tending to mean vaguely the embryo in the later stage of development), from Latin fetus (often, incorrectly, foetus ) "the bearing or hatching of young, a bringing forth," from Latin base *fe- "to generate, ...
Usage examples of fetus.
It was the abortifacient, she was sure, that was what she was using to detect Sime fetuses.
And, again, there is no reference to aborting a fetus, which was a known practice at the time.
Brodie reports the history of a case in a negress who voided a fetus from an abscess at the navel about the seventeenth month of conception.
Fourteen weeks later, ultrasound revealed a fetal skeleton, normal in all ways for that stage of development, a week later, amniocentesis confirmed the fetus was male.
Naydrad kept the fetus twitching slowly within the womb, and Danalta, using appendages whose shape and movements would give Cha Thrat bad dreams for many nights to come, tried to press and turn it into optimum position, she tried desperately to get through to her deeply unconscious mind-partner.
The blob - it began to look more and more like a twentyday fetus - fell through a black pool of living paint until it reached a small yellow star that I recognized as Darrein Luz.
The idea of a deader surrogate was mind-boggling to Joe and he could think of a hundred technical questions, such as how did the deader maintain a warm enough body temperature and provide the fetus with oxygen?
While some fetuses contributed whole ovary preparations, others had their ovaries minced and cultured, and others were reduced to providing disaggregated germ cell lines.
The ductus arteriosus is a small blood vessel that in the fetus joins the aorta to the pulmonary artery.
The facts were straightforward enough: the ductus was wide open because this fetus had never taken its first breath.
Bouzal cites an extraordinary case of ectopic gestation in which there was natural expulsion of the fetus through abdominal walls, with subsequent intestinal strangulation.
Tolberg has an example of hymen integrum after the birth of a fetus five months old, and there is recorded a case of tubal pregnancy in which the hymen was intact.
The brain of a human fetus also develops from the inside out, and, roughly speaking, runs through the sequence: neural chassis, R-complex, limbic system and neocortex.
This case recalls a somewhat similar one given by the older writers, in which a fetus was eaten by a worm.
And last, he already had good indications that it might be possible for a man to carry the fetus with the placenta attached to the omentum, that layer of fatty material on the inside of the lower abdomen.