fetus - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • abort: The first, in the USA, was a much magnified photograph of a fetus aborted at about 12 weeks.
  • harm: It is not known if exposure limited to the first trimester only can harm the fetus.
  • kill: The 180,000 women who have abortions in Britain each year know that abortion involves killing a fetus.
  • affect: How exactly does diabetes affect the fetus in the womb?
  • carry: In general, the risk of carrying a fetus with Down's syndrome increases with the mother's age.
  • develop: To do any less is to unnecessarily put the developing fetus at risk for neural tube birth defects.

Preposition: at

  • risk: To do any less is to unnecessarily put the developing fetus at risk for neural tube birth defects.

Adjective modifier

  • unborn: I have had an unborn fetus taken from me.
  • affected: These include false positive rates, and method of termination of an affected fetus.
  • viable: The only possible qualification is a case in which the choice may lead to the death of a viable fetus.
  • female: At about two months of pregnancy, the uterus in a female fetus begins to form.

Modifies a noun

  • move: Weeks 17 to 20 By 20 weeks ( the 22nd week of pregnancy ), the mother can feel the fetus move.

Preposition: during

  • pregnancy: The demands of the growing fetus during pregnancy also increase the requirement for many nutrients including Calcium and Iron.

Noun used with modifier

  • sheep: Development of ultrasound-guided gene therapy to the sheep fetus.

Preposition: in

  • womb: Now you're like an embryo, you're like a fetus in a womb, you're like a child not yet born.
  • pregnancy: Selective reduction is the process of killing one embryo or fetus in a multiple pregnancy.

Preposition: with

  • abnormality: To assess the risk of carrying a fetus with abnormalities, such as Down's syndrome When to get tested?

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