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UK
/fˈiːtəs/
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NOUN
- an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal
How To Use foetus In A Sentence
- Rose of Sharon braced her body against the movements of the car in an effort to protect her fetus.
- The new technique has been used to identify the sex of foetuses.
- Oh dear ... our gal SUZANNE has her fetus-fetishist panties in the bunchiest of bunches. I’ll take “Divorced From Reality” for $500, Alex.
- But a new study has found foetuses showing a preference for one side over the other usually retain it when after they are born.
- No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
- All dilemmas can be resolved, say the anti-abortion lobby, if the starting point is the foetus rather than the woman.
- It also has a narrow canal (the urachus) which serves to remove the urine of the foetus; in fact the subsequently formed bladder takes its origin from a dilation of the urachus. The Veterinarian
- The placenta derives from embryonic cells called trophoblasts, which form a ball around the cells that ultimately develop into the fetus.
- The use of images of fetuses has generally been a favoured tactic of the anti-abortion lobby.
- Between the eighth week of development and birth a human embryo is called a foetus.
