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Fetus  n.  (pl. fetuses)  (Written also foetus)  The young or embryo of a vertebrate animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals. showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.






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"Fetus" Quotes from Famous Books



... impregnated by a cousin of thirty-seven, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for seduction. The pregnancy terminated by the expulsion of a mole containing a well-characterized human embryo. Schmidt's case in 1779 was in a child who had menstruated at two, and bore a dead fetus when she was but eight years and ten months old. She had all the appearance and development of a girl of seventeen. Kussmaul gives an example of conception at eight. Dodd speaks of a child who menstruated early and continued up to the time of impregnation. She ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... for the formation of a socialist party likely to live, is precisely that policy of theoretical inflexibility and of refusing to enter into any "alliance" with partiti affini, as such an alliance is for socialism only a "false placenta" for a fetus that is unlikely ...
— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri



Words linked to "Fetus" :   ductus arteriosus, Vibrio fetus, abortus, fetal, umbilical, umbilical cord, monster, foetus, vertebrate, teras



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