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fetus

/fee-tuhs/US // ˈfi təs //UK // (ˈfiːtəs) //

胎儿,胚胎,胎儿的,胎儿的情况

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fe·tus·es.Embryology.

    • : the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation.

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  • The incident happened at Hamad international airport in Doha earlier this month after a fetus was discovered in an airport bathroom.

  • About 1 percent happen after the fetus reaches the point of viability.

  • Vuong and her team looked at the brains of fetuses from pregnant mice — some with their usual gut bugs, some raised without microbes and others ridded of their gut bacteria with antibiotics.

  • When a mother’s microbes were missing, fetuses had shorter and fewer axons extending from the brain’s “relay station” to the cortex, Vuong says.

  • Those abnormalities potentially impact oxygen and nutrient delivery to the fetus.

  • Case in point: when Loertscher was brought to court in Wisconsin, her 14-week-old fetus was granted a lawyer, but she was not.

  • “It is well established that a fetus is not a ‘person’; rather it is a sui generis organism,” the ruling stated.

  • They hold signs depicting a fetus with a hanging umbilical cord.

  • A few hours after the prolonged exposure to Duncan, Williams and her fetus died of overwhelming Ebola infection.

  • But she expressed no regrets mainly because of her concerns about how much her fetus suffered before termination.

  • Normally, erythroblasts are present only in the blood of the fetus and of very young infants.

  • The rudimentary intellect of the fetus is the uninterrupted continuation of the intellect in the preceding existence.

  • In case of involuntary abortion, which is comparatively frequent, the fetus is hung or buried under the house.

  • It is likewise found in the new-born and in the fetus.57 Its action, however, like its chemical composition, is markedly specific.

  • Dr. Abrams also has investigated methods whereby the sex of the fetus may be diagnosed.