fetus
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Scientists have shown that this ratio reflects the balance of estrogen and testosterone a fetus is exposed to during the first trimester of pregnancy.
From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026
Anti-inflammatory medicines like aspirin can endanger the fetus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
At her 10-week appointment, she learned that her child had triploidy, a genetic condition where a fetus has three sets of chromosomes instead of two, and would miscarry late-term or die at birth.
From Salon • Oct. 3, 2025
Quadros’s research has found that a specific autoantibody blocks the transport of folate from mother to fetus during pregnancy and when present after birth, the infant’s brain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025
Once inside the womb, semen matured into a fetus via nourishment from the mother.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
