foetus
Americannoun
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foetuses
plural
noun
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The community believes that a pregnant woman should not be buried with the foetus inside her - needing to "travel light" into the afterlife.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
This means the foetus is often removed and either buried separately or in the same grave as the mother, she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Karina is six months pregnant, but the foetus inside her womb is not her own.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
The woman and the doctors were aware of defects affecting her foetus, but the termination of her pregnancy was delayed.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
He was curled up like a foetus in an empty room on an old mattress that the last people to leave the Barracks had left behind in the flat.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
The risks are not uniform, with foetuses and young children most affected, and girls and women 52-percent more susceptible to the cancer-inducing effects of radiation than boys and men.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
And while these foetuses usually do not turn cancerous, they are likely to cause other problems to the individual, which will eventually lead to their detection.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Also, since the foetuses were attached to organs like the liver, kidneys and the intestines, they had to be extracted with great care so that no organs or blood vessels were damaged.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
The researchers demonstrated that there were considerable differences in gene expression in the intestine, brain and placenta of the foetuses of germ-free and normal mouse dams.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
“You can’t really do any useful intellectual conditioning till the foetuses have lost their tails. Follow me.”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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