Definition of Fetus

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fetus
n. young of a human or animal while in the womb or egg

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Fetus Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

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fetus

Noun
1. an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal
(synonym) foetus
(hypernym) vertebrate, craniate
(hyponym) monster, teras
(part-meronym) ductus arteriosus

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fetus
The young in the womb or in the egg.


Fetus Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries

NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
fetus
[FEET-us]
The developing offspring from 7 to 8 weeks after conception until birth.

Dictionary of Medicine (Shahram)
Fetus
The postembryonic stage before birth. In humans, the embyronic stage runs from conception to the beginning of the third month of pregnancy and the fetal stage runs from the start of the third month of preganancy until birth.

Lung Diseases Glossary
Fetus
Unborn offspring from 7 or 8 weeks after conception until birth.
Context: Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

TOXICOLOGY
Fetus
The unborn offspring in the postembryonic period, after major structures have begun to form. In humans this occurs from 8-9 weeks after conception until birth.


Fetus Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

JM Latin-English Dictionary
fetus
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foetus


Fetus Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Embryo
Embryo In general, the vitalized germ of an organism in its earlier stages, and sometimes applied to it until it leaves the egg or womb covering. The fertilization of the germ-cell in plant or animal is an everyday working of the universal law by which spirit incubates matter for the purpose of differentiating on the objective planes, in order to manifest the subjective monadic life. Thus the reincarnating ego, in beginning to make a new body for itself, with the division of the fertilized microscopic egg cell, is analogous to the world-germ awakening in a laya-center to begin another galactic, solar, or planetary existence. "This desire for a sentient life shows itself in everything, from an atom to a sun, and is a reflection of the Divine Thought propelled into objective existence" (SD 1:44).
In the unfolding marvel of the embryonic germ-cell, both in the human and subhuman kingdoms, each kind manifests its own essential selfhood or svabhava, and its own degree of evolution. In the unfolding growth of the human embryo it rapidly epitomizes the aeon-long history of the imbodiments of the race, as it also repeats its individual course through all the forms of matter -- a process often referred to as recapitulation. It goes back to past manvantaras of manifestation in mineral form, for "the cell-germinating substance (the cytoblastema) and the mother-lye from which crystals originate, are one and the same essence, save in differentiation for purposes" (SD 2:256n).
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Recapitulation
Recapitulation Known as the biogenic law. In embryology, the supposed process in which any embryo reproduces many of the progressive type-forms of the organisms that precede it in the line of development. The points of similarity between the series of forms that prevail from the simplest types of life to those of higher animals, and the resemblances in embryonic development of different organisms, are interpreted as evidence of a common descent. This implies that the imbodying entity -- man, for instance -- is the product of a progressive series of forms. Theosophy, however, shows the original unit of every manifested being to be an unself-conscious spark of divine life which becomes involved progressively in all grades and forms of matter during uncounted periods of time and varied rounds of experience. Thus the common descent and the evolutionary urge are fundamentally spiritual in origin.
The human embryo, in rapidly epitomizing its individual and racial history, sketches strange conditions which were normal in the early root-races. Its brain, in the second month, forms more than twenty percent of the body, as compared with about two percent in the adult body; the early embryonic and adult heart have similar relative proportions.
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Fetus Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Fetus
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Fetus Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Fetus
A fetus (or foetus, or fœtus) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before birth. The plural is fetuses (foetuses, fœtuses) or, very rarely, foeti.

In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development begins about eight weeks after fertilization, when the major structures and organ systems have formed, until birth.


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