fetus
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- noun
- /ˈfiːtəs/
- Specialized
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feto
- How can Sandy be alone if a fetus is growing inside her, four months old by now?
- human fetus
- developing fetus
- development of the fetus
And they're willing to abort a fetus if it's the wrong gender.
- And they're willing to abort a fetus if it's the wrong gender.
- But the pregnant woman's own voice reverberates through her body, reaching the fetus much more readily.
- Now my learned opponent says all fetuses are not trespassers.
- So she is going to affect the development of the fetus, the newborn.
- Even an embryo, even a fetus and a young baby.
- Like, OK, we've got the fetus on the motorcycle and the placenta.
- These curiosities, these deformed, you know, fetuses and animals.
- Because every fetus is oxygen deprived.
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During the ultrasound, we could see the heartbeat of the fetus for the first time.
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As the fetus grows, it starts responding to sounds from outside the womb.
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The only difference we have is when that fetus becomes a human life.
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The eyes of the fetus are closed, but it can see.
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The question is, when does a fetus become a life?
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And where does the right to the infant or the fetus or the potential human life begin?
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At that point, the fetus could live outside the womb.
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Scientific advances might make a fetus viable at an early stage of pregnancy.
Academic text (2017) -
Relating to the developing fetus as a person is a basic human phenomenon during pregnancy.
Academic text (1990) -
Oxygen supply to the fetus can be compromised at high altitude.
Academic text (2011)
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- Archaic
A type of bacteria that causes sheep to lose their unborn lambs and sometimes infects people
How Developed
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Etymology
The word fetus comes from Latin fetus, meaning 'offspring' or 'young one'. So a fetus today is the unborn young inside the womb in the later part of pregnancy.