Crossword clues for fetuses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetus \Fe"tus\ (f[=e]"t[u^]s), n.; pl. Fetuses (f[=e]"t[u^]s*[e^]z). [L. fetus, foetus, a bringing forth, brood, offspring, young ones, cf. fetus fruitful, fructified, that is or was filled with young; akin to E. fawn a deer, fecundity, felicity, feminine, female, and prob. to do, or according to others, to be.] The young or embryo of a vertebrate animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals. showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. [Written also f[oe]tus.]
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "fetuses".
Neither of the fetuses had been expelled by pressure of abdominal gases.
A young researcher at UCLA Medical Center, looking for a common element in seven rejected fetuses, had found an unknown virus.
Not a single Herod’s fetus has gone to full term, hi fact, yesterday, we were told by scientists working with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that not only are these second-stage fetuses subject to first trimester rejection at a catastrophic rate, but that they are especially vulnerable to virtually every known herpes virus, including Epstein-Barr.
The preceptive training of the fetuses will begin in the fifth month of life, just as my brother Jack's did.
I was going to tell you about it later, when the fetuses were ready for parturition, but perhaps I'd better do it now.
Saskia had been prostrate with grief when eleven of the fetuses had died inexplicably four weeks earlier.
Her real work was done, accomplished weeks ago when the paramount fetuses had made their great choice, choosing her just as she and the four lost Hydra-units had once chosen Fury.
I'm transporting several hundred genetically engineered animal fetuses in uterine replicators, which require periodic servicing.
Venn gave her a short apologetic nod and continued, “Did that Betan passenger Thorne was trying to help get its animal fetuses taken care of all right?
Miles hesitated, then went on, “This ba appears to be conducting a cargo of a thousand of what I suspect are the latest genetically modified haut fetuses in uterine replicators.
Was the ba right about the fetuses reaching some sort of biological limit in their containers?
He went on to call up the vid monitor images of the individual fetuses for Greenlaw's and the adjudicator's views.
And even if this one had been trained as some sort of special agent, why spend all that critical time taking samples from the fetuses that it was about to desert or maybe even destroy?
It wasn't that he meant to brood on this child – he had nicknamed it Little Chris, but nobody needed to know this – it was that he began to see images of fetuses in the movies he went to see, in the ads for movies which he saw in the papers.
He was harvesting cells from live fetuses and using them in transplants.