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fetus
  1. (Canada, US) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
  2. (Canada, US) A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The amniotic fluid and membrane cushion the fetus against bumps and jolts to the mother's body.”
      “The third instance of cord torsion resulted in the delivery of a nonviable, 15.5-week, phenotypically female fetus.”
      “One procedure destroys the fetus by a craniotomy, the other by dismemberment.”
feticide
  1. An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus. [from 19th century]
  2. One who kills a fetus.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “First, laws treating feticide as murder do not need to define fetuses as persons.”
      “Even before birth, the body may be killed through induced abortion and other types of feticide, such as stabbing the fetus in the womb.”
      “The practice of female feticide has resulted in a great gender imbalance in many developing Asian countries.”
foetalization
fetation
  1. The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
foetology
  1. fetology, the scientific study of foeti
foeticide
  1. Alternative form of feticide [from 19th century]
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In India too, with the strong son preference, female foeticide is on the increase.”
      “But he made no promise to do something special to root out the practice of female foeticide.”
      “In June, at a workshop on female foeticide in Bangalore, I learned first-hand of certain techniques of contemporary journalism.”
fetalization
  1. Alternative form of foetalization
foetation
  1. Alternative form of fetation
foetus
  1. (chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of fetus
  2. Examples:
    1. “The growing foetus tends to press against the bowel and stomach to cause indigestion, especially heartburn.”
      “During the first three months of pregnancy, the foetus is in a formative stage.”
      “Some men have even tried to prevent women having abortions on grounds that the unborn foetus belongs to them.”
fetii
  1. Misconstructed plural form of fetus (the standard plural is fetuses).
foetations
  1. plural of foetation
foeticides
feticides
fetations
  1. plural of fetation
foeti
  1. (hypercorrect) plural form of foetus
  2. Examples:
    1. “She asks the question about the high rates of child abuse continuing when abortion was supposed to prevent unwanted foeti being born into abuse.”
feti
foetuses
  1. plural of foetus
fetuses
  1. plural of fetus
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Chorioangiopagus vessels are vessels that join the fetuses in the placenta.”
      “The use of images of fetuses has generally been a favoured tactic of the anti-abortion lobby.”
      “Veterinarians are completing the study comparing allantoic and amniotic fluids and heart rates of fetuses in mares.”
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