(n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other terms include "selective" birth, reduction, feticide, abortion, and multiple pregnancy reduction.
(2) Purvi Patel faces between six and 20 years in prison for feticide and up to 50 years imprisonment for neglect of a dependent when she goes to trial, currently scheduled for 29 September.
(3) In the first case, to ensure the development of the normal fetus, selective feticide of the affected fetus was undertaken by transabdominal intracardial injection of 20% NaCl solution.
(4) After a feticide law was passed in Texas in 2003 , for example, a local district attorney used the opportunity to send a letter to all doctors in her county that they were now legally required to report any pregnant women using drugs.
(5) She is the second woman in Indiana to be charged with feticide following the prolonged criminal prosecution of Bei Bei Shuai, who lost her baby when she tried to kill herself .
(6) To use feticide charges in this way is bad for public health.
(7) Child neglect would require the baby to have been alive and viable, while the feticide charge would require the fetus to have died in utero.
(8) If only 1 twin fetus is affected, it is generally necessary to also abort the unaffected twin or to wait until the second trimester and perform selective feticide through use of the air embolism technique.
(9) In 2011, also in Indiana, Bei Bei Shuai was prosecuted under the same feticide laws after a suicide attempt ended in the death of her unborn child.
(10) Shuai, a migrant to the US from China, spent more than a year in jail awaiting trial for murder and feticide following the death of her baby, Angel, who was born after Shuai took rat poison in a suicide attempt.
(11) The advantages of the procedure of selective feticide developed by the authors are also discussed.
(12) Purvi Patel, the 33-year-old woman charged with feticide and child neglect over the death of her unborn child, has been found guilty of all counts by a jury in Indiana.
(13) The two charges that Patel now faces – the initial count of neglect of a dependent, and the new charge of feticide – appear to be legally contradictory.
(14) Asked about this apparent contradiction, Patel’s lawyer, Jeffrey Sanford, said: “I don’t think the state can prove a live birth.” In a pre-trial court hearing on Tuesday, Sanford asked for a delay in the trial date to give his team more time to prepare a defence against the new feticide charge.
(15) A 33-year-old woman from Indiana, has been charged with the feticide and fetal murder of her unborn child after she endured a premature delivery and sought hospital treatment.
(16) Women’s rights advocates see the decision by prosecutors of St Joseph County, Indiana, to apply feticide laws against Patel as part of the creeping criminalization of pregnancy in America.
(17) Different methods of intervention have been described, including therapeutic amniocentesis, selective feticide, and placental vessel puncture.
(18) Neither charge carries mandatory prison time, but the maximum sentence for child neglect is 50 years – with an additional maximum of 20 years for feticide.
(19) At 25 weeks' gestation, severe hydramnios, premature labor, and growth retardation of the donor twin suggested that selective feticide be contemplated to allow continuation of the pregnancy for the remaining twin.
(20) We report successful selective feticide of an anomalous, comprising twin by using intracardiac potassium chloride injection at 26 weeks gestation.
Fetus
Definition:
(n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
(2) A review of campylobacter meningitis by Lee et al in 1985 reported nine cases occurring in neonates, of which only one case was caused by C. fetus.
(3) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(4) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(5) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(6) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(7) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(8) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(9) Only one ewe aborted, 10 days after the first infecting dose, at 94 days of gestation; L monocytogenes was isolated from several sites in both its aborted fetuses.
(10) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
(11) Histological studies with neonatal mice raise the possibility that Müllerian duct tissue may represent a site for the transplacental toxicity of DES in both the male and female fetus.
(12) It is often necessary to estimate the dose of radiation to a fetus from a series of CT scans.
(13) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
(14) Digitalization by direct intramuscular injection of the fetus successfully controlled supraventricular tachycardia at 24 weeks' gestation after more traditional intensive trials of transplacental therapy with digoxin, verapamil, and procainamide, either separately or in combination, had failed.
(15) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
(16) Axosomatic and axodendritic contacts were present in the cortices of the fetuses.
(17) A case of mixed congenital abnormalities in a fetus demonstrated ultrasonographically during the second trimester of pregnancy in an uncontrolled insulin-dependent diabetic mother is presented.
(18) Intensive care monitoring of the fetus during labour improves perinatal conditions in 'high-risk" Black women.
(19) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(20) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.