| 单词 | fetus |
| 释义 | fetus (once / 4856 pages) n A fetus is a mammal before it's born. Once upon a time, you started as an embryo, matured into a fetus, and were then thrust into the world as a newborn. Fetus is a Latin word that means "the bearing, bringing forth, or hatching of young." Even though the Latin points to a fetus "hatching," contemporary science only regards viviparous vertebrates as having fetuses. In other words, if an animal has a backbone and was delivered via live birth, it was once a fetus. If a kitten has claws, whiskers, and ears, but is still inside its mother's womb, it's a fetus. In the UK, fetus is spelled foetus. WORD FAMILYfetus: fetuses USAGE EXAMPLESThe bills OK’d Wednesday bar physicians and their associates from knowingly benefiting financially from or being compensated for an embryo, fetus or neonate. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) The mosquito-borne Zika virus exploded in Brazil, where it was found to cause birth defects in the fetuses of infected women, especially microcephaly. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) A nearby site also contained remains of human cadavers and stillborn fetuses used in medical classes. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) n an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal Syn|Hypo|Hyper foetus monster, teras (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus abortusa human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body babyan unborn child; a human fetus craniate, vertebrate animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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