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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fetal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
calf
▪ Monolayers of human hepatoma cell line Hep3B were maintained in Dulbecco modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum.
▪ Dulbeco's modified Eagles' medium containing 10% fetal calf serum had an advantage in both plating efficiency and growth.
cell
▪ As she suspected, the women with sclerosis had 20 times more fetal cells in their blood than those without the disease.
▪ Theoretically, fetal cells serve as progenitors, differentiating into the family of cells that constitute the central nervous system.
death
▪ Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
▪ Adequate control is very important, because grand mal seizures may harm the fetus or even precipitate fetal death.
▪ Usually expressed as the ratio of fetal deaths; i.e. the number of fetal deaths per 1,000 live births.
growth
▪ This pattern of impaired fetal growth has now been shown to be linked to cardiovascular disease.
▪ Maternal diet is only one of the many factors that can lead to fetal growth retardation.
▪ This study does, however, give an insight into the influences which reduce fetal growth and their timing in gestation.
▪ We suggest that maternal undernutrition, by constraining fetal growth, may programme cardiovascular disease.
▪ The associations with head circumference and thinness must therefore reflect reduced fetal growth.
▪ This suggests that the mechanisms which constrain fetal growth to prevent maternal-fetal disproportion do not effect long term programming of cardiovascular disease.
▪ Birth weight has been used as a measure of fetal growth but it is strongly dependent on gestational age.
heart
▪ Arguably, however, the midwife's record of a normal fetal heart rate should be just as acceptable as evidence.
▪ The available evidence does not support routine continuous fetal heart rate monitoring during all labours.
▪ The procedure was not associated with alterations in fetal heart rate and there was no evidence of haemorrhage into the coelomic cavity.
life
▪ We suggest that this is further evidence that cardiovascular disease originates through programming in fetal life and infancy.
▪ State regulation protective of fetal life after viability thus has both logical and biological justifications.
▪ Introduction People who had low growth rates during fetal life and infancy have high death rates from ischaemic heart disease.
▪ Infants also have a memory for stories or music they heard repeatedly in late fetal life.
▪ The effect of biological and physiological factors is predominant during fetal life and in the perinatal period.
mortality
▪ In two developing countries, the lowest frequency of fetal mortality is at births above second but below sixth or seventh order.
▪ Most studies have found no increase in fetal mortality when blood glucose levels are controlled in this way.
position
▪ I curled up in a fetal position after the Elimination Ritual and waited for sleep to come.
▪ She lay without moving in a fetal position.
▪ Her body resumes its fetal position and Jakhaila relaxes into sleep.
▪ He was in a fetal position, trying even in death to nestle like a spoon with others.
▪ The patient had been institutionalized, was in the fetal position and had regressed physically.
tissue
▪ Much of the effort of the anti-abortion movement has been directed against clinicians and against researchers working on fetal tissue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adequate control is very important, because grand mal seizures may harm the fetus or even precipitate fetal death.
▪ Arguably, however, the midwife's record of a normal fetal heart rate should be just as acceptable as evidence.
▪ He had been born with the caul, the inner fetal membrane had covered his head at birth.
▪ I curled up in a fetal position after the Elimination Ritual and waited for sleep to come.
▪ In two developing countries, the lowest frequency of fetal mortality is at births above second but below sixth or seventh order.
▪ Maternal infection can result in fetal infection and damage and is estimated to occur in 0-1-0-5% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom.
▪ Perhaps the most remarkable result, however, was the apparent influence of fetal experience on career and marriage priorities.
▪ The mechanisms which link low fetal and infant growth rates with disease in adult life are not defined.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetal

Fetal \Fe"tal\, a. [From Fetus.] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fetal

1811, from stem of fetus + -al (1).

Wiktionary
fetal

a. (context embryology English) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.

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fetal

adj. of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" [syn: foetal]

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Usage examples of "fetal".

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.

And the fetal curl of the spine -- not amphibian, but something far more horrifying, because its genetic class was recognizable.

Somehow, the temporal energy from the anomaly caused the fetal tissue to revert to an earlier stage of development.

In his later statistics Morisani gives 55 cases with 2 maternal deaths and 1 infantile death, while Zweifel reports 14 cases from the Leipzig clinic with no maternal death and 2 fetal deaths, 1 from asphyxia and 1 from pneumonia, two days after birth.

Gaetano-Nocito, cited by Philipeaux, has the history of a taken with a great pain in the right hypochondrium, and from which issued subsequently fetal bones and a mass of macerated embryo.

The cloning department had worked overtime growing new batches of Emir embryos for the fetal neurons and glia they could supply and prepared appropriate annealing solutions of disaggregated cells with which the surgeons would bathe the central nervous system splices.

After the destruction of the Archuleta Mesa medical facilities, the barons were left without access to the ectogenesis techniques of fetal development outside the womb.

He had seen him do things in the privacy of his chambers that would have left lesser men huddled mewling on the floor, their eyes fastened to carpet or cold stone, their bodies curled into tight fetal positions.

If obtaining human oocytes is the goal, the fetal ovary is the mother lode.

Slowly she shrank into a fetal position on the cot, hugging her legs tight to her chest.

The bubble with its curled-up Cygnan and fetal humanoids was still snubbed in place.

Dots had been placed in front of the fetal heart rates, and at the bottom Sam had circled in red the signature of the ambulance driver.

Maser Generated Fetal Amplification by Syndetic Emission of Radiation.

The half-track fired again, and Alan crawled to Bonner, to find him lying on his side, curled into a fetal ball, hands secured behind him.

What surrogate mothers and anti-abortionists and the fetal rights issue had failed to do in uniting women, the prospect of not having to menstruate did.