How to Use fetus in a Sentence

fetus

noun
  • The doctor discovered the virus had passed to the fetus in utero.
    Anne Thompson, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Alexander played a video that showed a womb with a fetus.
    Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And then the picture of the aborted fetus kind of is the capper detail of the whole thing.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But little is known about the impact of those drugs on a fetus.
    Eshe Nelson Charlotte De La Fuente, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The fetus had two holes in his heart, no nose bone and his brain had not developed.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The first fetus was found on a seat, the outlets reported.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
  • Her fetus did not survive the crash and her 11-month-old son was also killed.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Other officers went to her home to search for the fetus.
    Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The fetus she and her boyfriend had named Maeve wasn’t expected to survive.
    Laura Ungar and Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Experts say the vaccine will not harm a pregnant person or the fetus.
    Claire Wolters, Verywell Health, 17 May 2023
  • He’s shown on the floor in the fetus position and the camera patiently closes up on the creases of his neck and hands.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Even then, the tiny fetus could be lost amid surrounding blood and tissue.
    Lara Freidenfelds / Made By History, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Vets can count the fetuses with X-rays over 45 days of gestation.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
  • At some point, the fetus in the womb has consciousness, and killing it leads to negative karma.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The procedure aborts one of the two pregnancies to give the other fetus the best chance at survival.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 19 July 2023
  • About 24 to 48 hours after that, the woman takes misoprostol, which causes the uterus to contract and abort the fetus.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 May 2024
  • That left Hollis with a difficult choice: end the pregnancy or risk her own death and the fetus’.
    Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • Prosecutors plan to file charges in connection with the death of the fetus.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Based on medical records, the fetus was more than 23 weeks old, the detective wrote.
    CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Pauley then instructed Scott to cold pack the fetus and send it via overnight shipment to him, the indictment said.
    Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Few Americans relish the thought of ending the life of an embryo or fetus.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Leave it to Anne Rice to give you the story of a demon inhabiting the unborn fetus of his witch lover.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
  • And Ramona is supposed to be a fetus, albeit a wiser one.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Then, at her eight-week checkup, doctors could not detect a heartbeat in the fetus.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Phoenix Fire Department found the fetus dead by burning, police said.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Congenital heart block occurs in the fetus or a newborn up to 28 days of life.
    Christopher Lee, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Doctors have repaired a malformation in the brain of a 34-week-old fetus.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
  • Sometimes, stents are also used to drain extra fluid from the fetus' chest.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The tall clay-like skin creature looks like a candle melting in human form, without eyes, and with malformed hands that resemble a fetus’ in a sonogram.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And actually, around the time Frances joined the FDA, there was a growing understanding of this: children, babies, and fetuses aren’t just adults in miniature.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024

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