foetus
foetus
Definition
foetus (fēt′əs)
noun
foe′tal 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
