It is the mother who has the job of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body's nutritional reserves.
When forming a fetus these reserves are drawn down and depleted.
Nothing analogous to this yolk is found in the fetus of lactiferous animals, as the milk is another nutritive fluid ready prepared for the young progeny.
These organic particles he believes to be in constant activity, till they become mixed in the womb, and then they instantly join and produce an embryon or fetus similar to the two parents.
Hence from the structure, as well as the use of the placenta, it appears to be a respiratory organ, like the gills of fish, by which the blood in the fetus becomes oxygenated.
For about what can the fetus deliberate, when it has no choice of objects?
The other monstrous fetusis described by Vander Wiel, who asserts, that he saw a monstrous lamb, which had no mouth; but instead of it was furnished with an opening in the lower part of the neck into the stomach.
The liquor amnii prepared for the fetus in the uterus, and in which it swims; and lastly, the milk prepared in the pectoral glands for the new born-child.
The amnion is nearest the fetus and forms a closed sac around it filled with a fluid known as liquor amnii, in which the fetus floats.
The fetus is on its side with limbs crossing and presenting.
As the bulky head of the calf can not be extracted along with the shoulders, it becomes necessary to push the body of the fetus back and straighten out the head and neck.
A very serious malpresentation, in which it is generally impossible to save the fetus if delivery is far advanced.
This has been known to occur in protracted parturition when the fetus finally passed while the bladder was full.
If the presentation is natural, little more is wanted than a judicious traction upon the fetus to compress and overcome the soft resisting masses.
Hooks of this kind, both blunt and sharp, are applied directly to thefetus to assist in delivery.
Turn the fetus so as to make a normal anterior presentation.
The fetus must be pushed back and an attempt made to bring the limbs properly into the genital passage.
This instrument is used for slitting up the skin of a limb and as a bone chisel when it is necessary to mutilate the fetus in order to effect delivery.
Did you know that a fetus in the womb only gets about half the amount of oxygen in his blood that he'll have when he starts to breathe?
She was staring at a drawing of a fetus lying in a sort of upside-down Yoga position inside a cross-sectioned woman's body.
The purpose of the umbillical cord is to contain and support the umbillical arteries and veins through which the fetusobtains nourishment from the placental substance, and through which the return blood flows.
During the period of gestation the fetus lies "curled up" in the bag of the amnion.
When the fetus dies within the womb of the mother, it is usually expelled spontaneously within a few days or even a few hours.
An important appendage contained in the Uterus in connection with the developing fetus is that known as "The Amnion.
In the early stages of labor, the uterine muscles are brought into play; but when the fetus enters into the vaginal passage the abdominal muscles manifest their energy.
Nature here shows a wonderful ability to pack the fetus into as little space as possible, and in such a position as to protect it from injury, and to discommode the mother as little as possible.
The story of the circulation of the blood of the fetus is most interesting.
The fetus has an independent circulatory system of its own, and yet, at the same time, from the moment of the placental connection until the moment of childbirth, all its nourishment is derived from its mother.
If born at this period, the fetus is able to breathe, cry and nurse, and may live if properly cared for.
Before birth, in fact, thefetus has its blood nourished and oxygenated by means of the food partaken of by its mother, and the oxygen taken in by the mother in her breathing.
A fetus born at this time might live several hours.
Footnote 243: As regards the time from which the fetus was considered to be animate a curious distinction was drawn between the male and the female fetus.
The same considerations as induce savages to kill their new-born infants also induce them to destroy the fetus before it has proceeded into the world from the mother's body.
Modern legislation, though treating the fetus as a distinct being from the moment of its conception,[249] punishes criminal abortion less severely than infanticide.
The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
If success attends the effort, the constriction around the arm is suddenly relaxed, the spiral folds are effaced, and the water bags and fetus press forward into the passage.
Teeth, hair, and other indications of a second fetus have likewise been found in the testicle or scrotum.
If the soft parts of the fetus have been absorbed and the bones only left, these must be carefully sought for and removed, and subsequent daily injections will be required for some time.
When there is no spontaneous opening it is injudicious to interfere, as the danger from the retention of the fetus is less than that from septic fermentation in the enormous fetal sac when that has been opened to the air.
In these cases the fetus retained its natural form, but in one reported by Gohier the bones only were left in the womb amid a mass of apparently purulent matter.
Each hole at the small end of the instrument has passed through it a stout cord with a running noose, to be passed around two feet or other portion of the fetus which it may be possible to reach.
The displacement of the ends of the broken bone is another cause of constriction, and between the two conditions the passage of the fetus may be rendered impossible without embryotomy.
The form of the fetus can be felt through the walls of the sac, so that it is easy to recognize the condition.
This turning of the fetus may be favored by a given position of the mother, by the free use of oil or lard on the surface of the fetus, and by the use of a propeller.
We do not know just why, after the uterus has tolerated the presence of the fetus for nine calendar months, it should then refuse to do so any longer and contract and expel it.
If the fetus presents in a position for prompt delivery it is removed with forceps, or by expression to spare the mother; but expression is a dangerous process always.
The ligation will shut off the blood supply to the fetus, and thus indirectly, permissively, the fetus must be unavoidably allowed to die.
In a removal of the fetus after an abruptio placentae the death of the fetusis not caused by the physician at all, but by the force that effected the abruptio.
At the end of the second month the fetus is two and a half centimetres long.
The tampon excites uterine contractions and causes destruction of a living fetus by dissecting it loose from the uterine wall through the dammed blood.
An innocent fetus an hour old may not be directly killed to save the lives of all the mothers in the world.
In three fetuses the bacillus was found in the intestinal contents in pure culture; in one fetus it was isolated from the blood.
When a fetus is aborted alive, as sometimes happens, it seldom survives long, and it is advisable to kill and destroy it, since it may excrete abundance of virulent material from its intestines if allowed to live.
The soiled litter, dung, exudate, membranes, and fetus should all be removed at once, preferably after they have been treated with caustic lime.
Two cows with mummified fetus in utero were examined post mortem.
One cow aborted June 24, the fetus evidently having been dead some days.
For a long time, however, practical husbandmen have recognized an epizootic or contagious kind of abortion, a definite transmissible disease in which the loss of the fetus is the most prominent characteristic.
On no account should thefetus and membranes be fed to pigs or dogs.
But no sooner had this arrangement been made than the English paid the Fetus an additional $4,500 to remain neutral!
Thus, says Eustachius, the teeth present themselves in a human fetus; but he who cannot obtain a human fetusmay observe the same things in a kid.
And a little farther on one reads: “From seven to fourteen the larger teeth come forth and all the others that substitute those derived from the nourishment of the fetus in the womb.
Eustachius, however, observed in the fetus the germs of the permanent incisors and canines as well, a thing not noted by Fallopius.
To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.
The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.
He found that in a very short time the amount of alcohol in the blood of the fetus about paralleled that in the blood of the mother.
On the contrary any deleterious effect which can reach the fetus through absorption from the blood of the mother may be of grave consequence.
For there are no nerves in the umbilical cord, the only path of communication between mother and fetus being the indirect one by way of the blood stream.
The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy.
The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it.
The cord which connects the fetus with the placenta, and contains the arteries and the vein through which blood circulates between the fetus and the placenta; the navel-string.
In these the fetus is attached to the uterus by a placenta.
It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.
In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth.
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
The Academicians were of the opinion, that life was imparted to the fetus during the period in which the mother carried it in the womb, but they could not agree on the time when it began.
If the embryo or fetus is simply an animal growing in the mother’s womb, until the period of quickening or birth, it would not be a crime to procure an abortion, at any time, before these events take place.
After the fetus is murdered, its soul continues to grow in the spiritual realm, an undying witness of the criminal infamy which deprived it of that earthly experience which nature intended for the children of men.
Among the avoidable causes there is none so prolific of disease as that which is traced to the premature expulsion of the ovum or fetus from the mother’s womb.
There is a general impression among a large portion of the community that the fetus first becomes endowed with life at the period of quickening, which is between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy.
The question that we are particularly interested in is whether this “animal life” which stimulates the growth of the fetus from its first inception, can be any the less sacred at one time than at another?
When the fetus acquires so much muscular power as to move its limbs, or to turn itself, which is called quickening, this sickness of pregnancy generally ceases.
They both became insensible, and died after some hours; from one of them the fetus was extracted in vain.
The cord which connects the fetus with the mother.
The corset prevents the proper development of the abdominal muscles, which play so important a role in the expulsion of the child from the womb, as well as in the proper growth and development of the fetus itself.
Physiologists admit and observation proves that maternal emotions do affect the development and the exterior of the fetus; likewise the mental organization of the fetus may be affected.
The expulsion of the fetusbetween the end of the twenty-eighth week and the time that labor ought to have occurred.
The expulsion of the fetus before the end of the third lunar month.
The expulsion of thefetus between the twelfth and twenty-eighth weeks.
The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
The act of destroying a fetusin the womb; feticide.
A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, Ð in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.
At the end of the seventh month the length of the fetus is from twelve and a half to fourteen inches; its weight is about fifty-five ounces, and it is both well-defined and well-proportioned in all its parts.
It also affords thefetus greater freedom of motion, and protects the womb and other parts from injuries which might otherwise be inflicted by the fetus after quickening.
Any fatigue drains from the fetus its vitality and development, which is its birthright, and which is the duty of every woman to give her child.
Upon the inner side, the placenta is united with the fetus by two arteries which are wrapped around the one vein, which together unite with the body of the placenta.
It protects the fetus from any local pressure or blow, and so distributes any pressure as to enable all the parts to grow without danger of distortion and deformity.
The fetus is from nineteen to twenty-three inches in length, and weighs on an average from six to eight pounds.
At the end of the eighth month the fetus seems to thicken up rather than to increase in length, since it is only from sixteen to eighteen inches long, while its weight increases from four to five pounds.
The movements of the fetus are by this time plainly felt by the mother, and if born at this time it may live several months.
At the end of the sixth month the fetus is from eleven to twelve and a half inches in length, and weighs about sixteen ounces, more or less.
At the end of the fifth month the body of the fetus is from seven to nine inches long, and weighs from eight to eleven ounces.
Therefore that fetus was essentially human and the problem is solved when we realize that it has transformed from one form to another until it appears and manifests with the utmost beauty.
A miscarriage or abortion is said to be "complete" when the fetus with its membranes and after-birth is expelled clean and whole, or in other words when the womb empties itself completely.
Disease of the fetus or the presence of syphilis in either of the parents will also have the same result.
The dead fetus acts as a foreign body and excites the womb to contract as it does during an ordinary confinement.
The contractions open up the mouth of the womb and the fetus is expelled together with its membranes and after-birth.
In these cases there is a partial separation of the fetus from the wall of the womb, which causes the bleeding.
Feeling the movements of the fetus only indicates that the fetus has grown to where it has strength enough to make its presence known.
It is as much a crime to destroy the life of a fetus one day old as it is after its movements are felt.
The first is where the expulsion of the fetus is willfully produced; the other where it is purely an accident.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: germ; larva; nymph; rudiment
