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What is "foetal"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foetal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a foetal position (=in which you are curled up like a baby before it is born)
▪ I crawled into my bed and curled up in a foetal position.
foetal position
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
position
▪ This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg.
▪ The spasms nearly always cause targets to curl into a foetal position.
▪ Emily was curled up in a foetal position, naked, on the floor, sobbing.
▪ Some even resort in the middle of a battle to lying motionless in a foetal position.
▪ McAggott climbed over the sergeant, who had assumed the foetal position, and staggered back to his office.
▪ He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat.
▪ He was a short man, slight in build, and was curled up in the foetal position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
▪ And oxygen deficiency during the foetal stage may inhibit brain development and size at birth, with or without other defect.
▪ Physicians were obliged to inform abortion patients about foetal development and the alternatives to terminating the pregnancy.
▪ Recently I treated her for a sexually transmitted disease with metronidazole, which is known to cause foetal abnormalities in rats.
▪ Some drugs are known to cause foetal damage and should not be taken during pregnancy.
▪ Some even resort in the middle of a battle to lying motionless in a foetal position.
▪ The spasms nearly always cause targets to curl into a foetal position.
▪ This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foetal

Foetal \F[oe]"tal\, a. Same as Fetal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foetal

see fetal; for spelling, see oe.

Wiktionary
foetal

a. (context chiefly British alternative in Canada English) (alternative spelling of fetal English)

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WordNet
foetal

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

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Usage examples of "foetal".

He was depicted holding to a hand plate on the wall, feet and legs drawn into the foetal position.

But which was it, this nonsense about foetal personhood or for wearing the skins of these dead chinchillas my God that's all they're good for isn't it?

Of course now he says it was animal rights because her insurance people are suing him for the cost of that lovely chinchilla while this revolting boy is after her for God knows how much in damages for killing his unborn child while they haggle about foetal personhood and the rest of this nonsense where you might make yourself useful, I know she'd be eternally grateful.

She was sleeping in a foetal bundle: white cotton nightie, kneecaps for breasts, her little brown thumb planted tritely in her mouth.

This vat was a cold womb for the foetal fashionings of a vampire thing.

Consider the social ramifications of fission and fusion power, supercomputers, data `highways', abortion, radon, massive reductions in strategic weapons, addiction, government eavesdropping on the lives of its citizens, high-resolution TV, airline and airport safety, foetal tissue transplants, health costs, food additives, drugs to ameliorate mania or depression or schizophrenia, animal rights, superconductivity, morning-after pills, alleged hereditary antisocial predispositions, space stations, going to Mars, finding cures for AIDS and cancer.

Hand's incantation shredded apart in a scream and he rolled into a foetal ball.