An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal.
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1 However, these studies have been limited to pregnancies carrying a male fetus .
2 And in this respect it differs from the fetus of viviparous animals.
3 Summary: There has been remarkable advancement in identifying the fetus at risk.
4 It's just that some people believe that a fetus isn't... Isn't what?
5 It also bans abortions based solely on the gender of the fetus .
1 The fœtus must be nourished with blood; the new-born infant with milk.
2 The plastic brain of the fœtus is prompt to receive all impressions.
3 The eyes of the fœtus are constructed in the darkness of the womb.
4 Thus did the fœtus of crime engendered by Brujon in La Force miscarry.
5 A world in limbo, in the state of fœtus , what an unheard-ofspectre!
6 It seems to me that I could turn over the fœtus !
7 During the process of development the fœtus resembles various animals.
8 And the movements of the fœtus may be excited in various ways known to physicians.
9 The influences upon the fœtus may have also been of an extreme and unusual kind.
10 Several of them contain skeletons that have the position of the fœtus in the mother's womb.
11 It favors, by the calmness of all the functions which attends it, the growth of the fœtus .
12 Active fœtal movements begin, that is, the fœtus begins to move around and not lie quietly as before.
13 Sometimes through an accident or on account of disease, the womb expels the fœtus before it is fully developed.
14 As she was with calf, the lungs of the fœtus were examined, disclosing a beautiful state of red hepatization.
15 It is, on the whole, in favor of sacrificing the fœtus whenever the interests of the mother demand such a sacrifice.
16 During the time the ovum is developing into the babe we speak of it first as the embryo, then the fœtus .
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