The reason given varies; for example, the British Royal Navy cite the reason for not allowing women to serve aboard submarines as medical and related to the safety of an unborn fetus, rather than that of combat effectiveness.
In Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, a father and son encounter a family that consumes a fetus.
The previous album, Feed Us A Fetus, was perhaps a little less graphic, with a depiction of a baked fetus on the table in front of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Her unborn child also died, 40 days after the six-month-old fetus was delivered by emergency Caesarean section.
The French phrase en ventre sa mere (literally, in his/her mother's belly) refers to a fetus in utero.
Because glucose travels across the placenta (through diffusion facilitated by GLUT3 carriers), in untreated gestational diabetes the fetus is exposed to consistently higher glucose levels.
De Rossi was next called by Dino De Laurentiis to work with Carlo Rambaldi to create the on-set practical effects for two films in Mexico including the sci fi blockbuster Dune, for which he worked wonders, creating the fetus-shaped Spice Guild Navigator seen floating in a tank.
The Neonatal Fc receptor which in case of humans transfer the maternal antibody from mother through placenta to fetus, in this case is involved in transporting the IgG1 antibodies from mother animal's mammary gland into milk and then again from the ingested milk across the newborn intestine into the newborn animal's circulation.
Metabolic imprinting, the phenomenon by which the metabolism of the developing fetus may be "programmed" during gestation
Fetus also had fluid building up inside the skull (Hydrocephalus) and possibly had a heart problem.
Fiore's comics were included in Ted Rall's Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, along with other web-comics such as Dinosaur Comics, Diesel Sweeties, Fetus-X, and The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Thyroid hormones, T4 and TSH, diffuse across the placenta traveling from the mother to fetus for 10-12 weeks before the fetus’s own thyroid gland can begin synthesizing its own thyroid hormones.
In 1961, Ciba and Parke-Davis added the reported association of ethisterone and norethisterone with masculinization of external genitalia of the female fetus to the precautions section of their advertisements to physicians and physician prescribing information.
Prenatal testing is usually performed around 15–18 weeks, using amniocentesis to extract DNA from the fetus's cells.
Dr. Carhart wanted to use a modified version of this called "D&X" (Dilation and Extraction), which, rather than commencing curettage inside the uterus, extracts part of the fetus first and then begins the process of dismemberment.
Spiramycin may be used safely without undue risk of teratogenicity and may reduce the rate of transmission to the fetus.
Although the Charter does say its rights belong to humans, whether the fetus is a human is a merely "linguistic" question that would not solve the issue of what the National Assembly of Quebec actually meant in the Charter.
Chorionic villi, found on the surface of the outermost membrane (the chorion) of the fetus
In 2006, voters chose Eric Millikin's horror/romance comic Eric Monster Millikin (then called Fetus-X) as one of the top five finalists for the "Outstanding Romance Comic" award; however, it was disqualified by the awards' executive committee.
He often contributed to daily newspapers, and he published and lectured on a wide range of issues, including various conflicts, Islam in Britain, Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, female genital cutting, democracy, the rights of the fetus, and human rights.