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foetus Definition

foetus (fētəs)

noun

fetus

foetus Related Forms
foetal adjective
foetus Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • abort: Should they be able to abort a fetus of the " wrong " sex?
  • expose: Message The risk of oral clefts increases threefold in fetuses exposed to corticosteroids during the first trimester.
  • harm: Q. Can one dose of speed harm the fetus?
  • develop: The default brain in the developing fetus is female.
  • destroy: For women, photos of destroyed fetuses or videos of suction procedures do not capture the reality of abortion.
  • affect: This can affect the fetus in several different ways.

Preposition: at

  • risk: Failure to do so put Mrs T at risk of fits and also put the fetus at risk.

Adjective modifier

  • aborted: On a practical basis we, of course, consider the aborted fetus to be a human being.
  • unborn: At what stage does an unborn fetus become a person?
  • affected: Yet if she terminated an affected fetus, wouldn't she be denying the value of her own life?
  • viable: The only possible qualification is a case in which the choice may lead to the death of a viable fetus.
  • male: In pregnant women the drug can result in ambiguous genitalia in any male fetus.
  • female: In one year, 40,000 female fetuses were aborted in Bombay alone.

Modifies a noun

  • cannot: The third rule, it will be recalled, is that a fetus cannot be the victim of murder.

Preposition: during

  • pregnancy: Eating fish also ensures the proper development of the brain, nervous tissue and eyes of the fetus during pregnancy.

Noun used with modifier

  • rat: Effect of some therapeutic agents on the developing rat fetus.
  • syndrome: One may speculate that the Down's syndrome fetus is protected to some degree by the maternal respiratory system.
  • full-term: Does the full-term fetus in some way indicate that it has had enough of being in the mother's inside?

Preposition: in

  • womb: In its simplest form element 5 meant that, to cause the death of a fetus in the womb could not be murder.
  • way: This can affect the fetus in several different ways.

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