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Synonyms for fetus

an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

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The researchers found that 5.0 percent of the fetuses and infants were not carried to term or were stillborn and 527 were born alive.
Once the chip completes a two-year study, it can be used for a variety of issues that plague women and fetuses while sparing human subjects or animals.
--Gravid uterus was removed and weighed with its contents, and total number of implantation sites and living, resorbed, or still-birth fetuses were recorded to calculate fetal mortality rate and the post-implantation loss index, which was calculated according to (Christian, 2001).
According to the latest study, however, many fetuses of minority mothers may be developing normally but, because of hereditary and environmental factors, they are smaller than their white counterparts.
Few studies showed reduced weight of the kidney in low birth weight infants and growth restricted fetuses at birth.
SIDON, Lebanon: The owners of Shab Hospital in Sidon claimed false media reports over the weekend concerning the discovery of dead fetuses in the facility had tarnished their reputation.
We adults can know that we were once fetuses, but no early fetus can know that it will become a human person, nor can anyone else know this.
In second case, one premature dead female fetus and two live male fetuses were removed (Fig 1 and 2).
Lead author Dr Nadja Reissland, in Durham University's Department of Psychology, said: "Our research suggests that stressed mothers have fetuses who touch their face relatively more with their left hand.
Researchers found evidence of significant adverse effects in mammary glands, ovaries, brain, uterus, lung and heart tissues in BPA exposed fetus when compared to fetuses not exposed to BPA.
Two fetuses were found in separate places in Manila Thursday night.
The development of teat was initiated by an elevation of epidermal cone surrounding the mammary bud at 5.70 cm CRL in buffalo fetuses [20], whereas [11, 25] a papilla was observed like teat discernible on either side of midline in inguinal region between two thighs at 9.5 cm CRL (58 days) and 6.70 cm CRL, respectively, in goat foetuses.
Lactate detection in the brain of growth-restricted fetuses with magnetic resonance spectroscopy.