How to Use fetus in a Sentence

fetus

noun
  • Congenital heart block occurs in the fetus or a newborn up to 28 days of life.
    Christopher Lee, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Linton has been charged with the murder of six people, including the unborn fetus.
    Dan Carson, Chron, 12 Sep. 2022
  • When a person is 15 weeks pregnant, the fetus isn’t fully developed.
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Prosecutors charged Linton with murder in the death of Ryan’s fetus.
    Gregory Yee, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Doctors determined that her amniotic sac had ruptured; the fetus would not survive outside the womb.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The new bill would also require that police receive the aborted fetus’ collected DNA.
    James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The proposal also requires that police receive the fetus' DNA.
    James Pollard, ajc, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Green was arrested in 2017 after police found a stillborn fetus, which tested positive for meth, in a dumpster.
    Amy Yurkanin, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2022
  • That ordeal also prompts the introduction of a fetus-cam, an unfortunate device used to explore her unfulfilled longing for a child in the least subtle way possible.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • This embryo loss typically occurs in the first two months after fertilization, before the clump of cells has developed into a fetus with immature forms of the body’s major organs.
    Kathryn Kavanagh, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But even when a growing fetus demands more iron intake, women may not always be screened for iron deficiency.
    Lourdes Medrano, NPR, 15 Sep. 2024
  • If voters approve the measure, abortions would be allowed until fetal viability — the point at which a fetus could survive outside the womb, typically around 24 weeks.
    Sejal Govindarao, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024

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