nounfetuses

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

  ‘A small subset of fetuses with large lung lesions will become hydropic, deteriorate rapidly, and die in utero.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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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