fetal age
- noun
- /ˈfiːtəl eɪdʒ/
- Specialized
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- Regular ultrasounds help determine the fetal age throughout the pregnancy.
Examples
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Determination of fetal age is significant not only in obstetric management but also in medicolegal cases.
Academic text (2007) -
In patients with congenital malformations, it is usually possible to determine the fetal age at which developmental arrest occurred.
Academic text (2003) -
And yes, Cheryl had been pregnant, the fetal age about eight to ten weeks.
Fiction book (1995) -
Many medicolegal questions, especially related to fetal age, are to be answered by a forensic pathologist after examining a dead fetus.
Academic text (2007) -
I'm not going to stop pointing out that a zygote is a living human body, but if you want to know where I think we have the best chance of saving lives, it's among embryos and fetuses who are between four and sixteen weeks fetal age.
Blog text (11) -
When someone says, "See, we detected these kinds of brain patterns at this fetal age; therefore, this baby has a consciousness; therefore, you can't abort it after this point," they think all of that flows logically.
Blog text (29) -
When someone says, "See, we detected these kinds of brain patterns at this fetal age; therefore, this baby has a consciousness; therefore, you can't abort it after this point," they think all of that flows logically.
Blog text (29) -
Both the dimensions correlated well with foetal age, with a correlation coefficient (6) of 0.83 to 0.85 respectively.
Academic text (2007) -
They found a good correlation between superior facial height and fetal age (r=0.96) and observed that the mean growth rate was 1.3 mm per week up to 34 weeks, after which it decreased to 0.5 mm per week.
Academic text (2007) -
The doctor calculated the fetal age to ensure the pregnancy was progressing normally.
Synonyms
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The time from conception to birth counted in weeks
Time counted from when the sperm joins the egg to show how old an embryo or unborn baby is
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'fetal age' is compositionally built from 'fetal' (relating to a fetus) and 'age' (how long something has existed), so a learner who knows both words can infer it means the age of the fetus. While there is a technical distinction in clinical contexts (e.g., methods of calculation), the core meaning is directly derivable from the constituents and thus readily understandable.
Etymology
The noun fetal age comes from two simple words: fetal, meaning the unborn baby, and age, meaning how old it is. So it literally names 'how old the unborn baby is from when the egg and sperm joined', and doctors use it to say the baby's age in the womb.