fetus

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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Although prior immunity usually protects the fetus, routine screening is not available in some countries, highlighting the challenges of managing an infection that is widespread but often symptom-free.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

Conversely, maternal cells circulating in the pregnant mother’s bloodstream commonly slip through into the fetus and get incorporated into its body.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

At her 10-week appointment, she learned that her child had triploidy, a genetic condition where a fetus has three sets of chromosomes instead of two, and would miscarry late-term or die at birth.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2025

The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond