(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.
Foetus
Definition:
(n.) Same as Fetus.
Example Sentences:
(1) B and C, were identified and their relative proportions shown to be considerably greater in the foetus than in the adult.
(2) Combined study of lungs of 85 foetuses and newborns of various gestational age and 8 newborns dying during the first month of life showed the lung surfactant (LS) system to develop in parallel with formation of respiratory parts and lung capillary network.
(3) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
(4) An atmosphere of hydrogen eliminates this inhibition in the hydrogenase-containing T. foetus but not in E. invadens which lacks the enzyme.
(5) [U-14C]Glucose failed to label choline-containing lipids in T. foetus but did so in T. vaginalis, with phosphatidylethanolamine again being heavily labeled.
(6) This was either giant teratoma of placenta or malformed twin foetus.
(7) The foetuses were of both sexes (nfemale = 12, n male = 8).
(8) Two forms of somatomedin, which crossreact in a radioreceptor-assay using foetal brain membranes as matrix, have been partially purified from the serum of human foetuses aged 16-28 weeks of gestation.
(9) The histologic and ultrastructural appearance of the telencephalon of the normal 21-day guinea-pig foetus was described for comparative purposes.
(10) Negative influence of the drug on foetuses was not observed.
(11) Tertiary screening was done by examining therapeutic activity for experimental trichomoniasis in mice with Trichomonas foetus.
(12) Ruling on Mellet’s complaint , the committee concluded that Ireland’s abortion laws, which are among the most restrictive in the world, meant that she had to chose “between continuing her non-viable pregnancy or travelling to another country while carrying a dying foetus, at personal expense, and separated from the support of her family, and to return while not fully recovered”.
(13) The cerebella of thirty-five foetuses were sectioned sagittally at intervals of 100 micron, and those of five were sectioned coronally.
(14) Results obtained with a high pass filtered pink noise at a 106, 109 and 113 dB SPL on 37-40 week foetuses are given to illustrate this dependency.
(15) Antigenic tritrichomonas proteins were identified by immunoblot assay with polyclonal bovine or rabbit anti-T foetus serum.
(16) The cows, calves and foetuses were necropsied following either parturition or slaughter between 200 and 270 days of pregnancy.
(17) The dissection under an operative microscope of 46 foetuses from a homogeneous series measuring 80 to 390 mm C-R (crown-rump) is the subject of a gross anatomic study of the thymus.
(18) Mycophenolic acid (100 microM) completely blocked the conversion of adenine and hypoxanthine to guanine nucleotides in T. foetus mpar, although no inhibition of T. foetus mpar growth was observed at this concentration.
(19) While the first detectable definite response of spleen cells was seen at 60 days GA when 50% of the foetuses exhibited significant reactivity to the 3 mitogens, spleen cells from all foetuses beyond that age responded significantly.
(20) However, when ovariectomized mice receiving 1 mg progesterone were also given 0.01 microgram oestradiol on days 10-15, gestation was maintained and the number of live foetuses and foetal and placental weights on day 16 were normal.