fetus

CEFRC1

/ˈfiːtəs/

noun

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Since when have you been able to feel the movement of the fetus?
The point at which an embryo becomes a fetus has apparently been chosen arbitrarily.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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When did you start feeling the movements of the fetus?
The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.

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Though scientists do not know how stress affects gestation, Fukuda theorizes that the vulnerability of Y-bearing sperm cells, male embryos and/or male fetuses to stress is why “subtle significant changes in sex ratios” occur. […] The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or genetic abnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said.
2019 January 23, Susan Scutti, “Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say”, in CNN
The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.
1959 [1689], John Locke, chapter 6, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, vol. 2, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., page 77

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A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.