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fetus

noun as in unborn young

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The incident happened at Hamad international airport in Doha earlier this month after a fetus was discovered in an airport bathroom.

About 1 percent happen after the fetus reaches the point of viability.

When a mother’s microbes were missing, fetuses had shorter and fewer axons extending from the brain’s “relay station” to the cortex, Vuong says.

Vuong and her team looked at the brains of fetuses from pregnant mice — some with their usual gut bugs, some raised without microbes and others ridded of their gut bacteria with antibiotics.

Those abnormalities potentially impact oxygen and nutrient delivery to the fetus.

Case in point: when Loertscher was brought to court in Wisconsin, her 14-week-old fetus was granted a lawyer, but she was not.

“It is well established that a fetus is not a ‘person’; rather it is a sui generis organism,” the ruling stated.

They hold signs depicting a fetus with a hanging umbilical cord.

A few hours after the prolonged exposure to Duncan, Williams and her fetus died of overwhelming Ebola infection.

But she expressed no regrets mainly because of her concerns about how much her fetus suffered before termination.

Normally, erythroblasts are present only in the blood of the fetus and of very young infants.

The rudimentary intellect of the fetus is the uninterrupted continuation of the intellect in the preceding existence.

In case of involuntary abortion, which is comparatively frequent, the fetus is hung or buried under the house.

It is likewise found in the new-born and in the fetus.57 Its action, however, like its chemical composition, is markedly specific.

Dr. Abrams also has investigated methods whereby the sex of the fetus may be diagnosed.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fetus, such as: blastosphere, blastula, embryo, developing infant, and fertilized egg.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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