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fetal

adjective as in prenatal

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Understanding processes that govern brain size could help us better understand the causes of microcephaly and other disorders in which the fetal brain fails to develop properly.

After dousing stem cells with this soup, the cells shed their previous identity, instead adopting that of fetal ovary supporting cells.

Collins also advocates for the expanded use of at-home heartbeat monitoring to detect fetal stress.

She was given a drug commonly used to speed up contractions and hooked up to a fetal heart monitor to measure and record her baby’s vital signs, Grant alleged in court papers.

However, the wording of these polling questions doesn’t capture the fact that the law directly challenges what Roe established as fetal viability, or the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb — generally considered about 24 weeks.

Physicians there are skilled enough to perform mid-trimester abortions, as well as procedures for women with fetal anomalies.

Their website seems almost exclusively involved with smoking out products and manufacturers that use aborted fetal cell lines.

But she was in one of the 38 states that do have a fetal homicide law.

Some scientists assert there are three times as many cases of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders than FAS cases.

Curled into a fetal position on an outdoor, candle-lit matt in Costa Rica, the 18-year-old trembles in fear.

Even in my fetal state I have, by thy favour, become versed in the Shastras and the Vedas with their several branches.

She is keeping up her own bodily functions, as well as developing her fetal litter.

That opinion is not finally settled as regards the animal after the fetal stage, but it is much stronger as regards embryos.

The allantois becomes a part of the fetal umbilical cord after the formation of the placenta.

Some terata, as the Acephalia, have no brain or spinal cord, but they die in the fetal stage.

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

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