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Conceive :: Conceive (v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.

Stillborn :: Stillbirth (n.) The birth of a dead fetus.

Omphalomesenteric :: Omphalomesenteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus..

Aborticide :: Aborticide (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..

Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life..

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus..

Caul :: Caul (n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth..

Embryo :: Embryo (n.) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus)..

Deciduata :: Deciduata (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species..

Lanugo :: Lanugo (n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth..

Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Placenta :: Placenta (n.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth..

Superfice :: Superfete (v. t.) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.

Embryotomy :: Embryotomy (n.) The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal..

Acardiac :: Acardiac (a.) Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus..

Allantoid :: Allantoid (n.) A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle..

Feticide :: Feticide (n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Gastroelytrotomy :: Gastroelytrotomy (n.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous..

Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

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