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