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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..

Germ :: Germ (n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears..

Chorion :: Chorion (n.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development..

Quicken :: Quicken (v. i.) To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb..

Fetus :: Fetus (n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages..

Foetus :: Foetus (n.) Same as Fetus.

Fetation :: Fetation (n.) The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

Abortion :: Abortion (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage..

Afterbirth :: Afterbirth (n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery..

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

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

Cranioclast :: Cranioclast (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases..

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

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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