foetus
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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
Karina is six months pregnant, but the foetus inside her womb is not her own.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
The hospital said the decisions of medical staff were based on concerns for the health of both mother and foetus.
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
According to Izabela's family, doctors waited for her foetus to die before acting, fearing legal consequences.
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
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