nounplural noun fetuses

• An unborn or unhatched offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human more than eight weeks after conception.

  ‘adequate folic acid is important for the developing fetus’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A small subset of fetuses with large lung lesions will become hydropic, deteriorate rapidly, and die in utero.’
  • ‘Feedback is currently being used in a trial of early versus delayed delivery for preterm, growth retarded fetuses.’
  • ‘How well a woman and the fetus do during pregnancy depends upon the type of heart problem.’
  • ‘It was perceived that they were the African women who could carry a fetus to full term.’
  • ‘Doctors in China will harvest cells taken from aborted human foetuses which will then be injected into Mr Bell's head and spinal cord.’
  • ‘Already cloning embryos, using aborted foetuses, gene swapping and gene therapy will mean the long term impacts will be immense on our everyday living.’
  • ‘Poorly controlled asthma can lead to serious medical problems for pregnant women and their fetuses.’
  • ‘Not every mother agrees that it is desirable to identify and terminate a fetus with Down's syndrome.’
  • ‘It just happens that she helps a lot of women to abort their unborn fetuses.’
  • ‘Alcohol enters the fetus readily through the placenta and is eliminated by maternal metabolism.’
  • ‘The past 20 years have seen rapid advances in the detection of genetic disorders in human fetuses.’
  • ‘Developing fetuses, pregnant women, and young children are especially vulnerable.’
  • ‘The youngest fetus with Down's syndrome in our sample was 22 weeks old at the time of measuring.’
  • ‘The woman is likely to be concerned about the risk of medication to the fetus.’
  • ‘Some men have even tried to prevent women having abortions on grounds that the unborn foetus belongs to them.’
  • ‘Those who favour abortion cannot accept that a foetus is a human being, exactly the same as a new born baby is a human being.’
  • ‘However, fewer than one percent of fetuses become infected when their mother has a recurrent infection.’
  • ‘After the eighth week of pregnancy, the developing baby is called a foetus.’
  • ‘Use a barrier contraceptive the first month: female fetuses may be adversely affected.’
  • ‘Further pregnancies should then pose no risk to the fetus or mother.’

  Synonyms

  embryo, fertilized egg, unborn baby, unborn child

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