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fetal

adjective as in prenatal

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But the photo that remains Leibovitz’s most iconic to date is the January 1981 cover of Rolling Stone featuring a nude, fetal John Lennon wrapped around Yoko Ono.

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When scientists studied women with such diseases, they often found fetal cells in the affected organs: the skin in scleroderma, the liver in biliary cirrhosis, the joints in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

In collaboration with partners including the University of Sydney, they profiled nearly 680,000 cells from the fetal brain to chart the full cellular landscape.

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Researchers studying three groups of people -- individuals with autism, those with fetal alcohol syndrome, and a "neurotypical" control group -- found that cognitive ability strongly influenced how well participants understood speech in noisy conditions.

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I read academic articles about fetal monitoring and the risks and benefits of various interventions.

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