How to Use fetal in a Sentence

fetal

adjective

• She was sent to see a maternal fetal medicine specialist for an ultrasound, which found that the baby was a girl.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• That cry for help often goes unheeded in the presence of a fetal heartbeat, even if the demise of the pregnancy is inevitable.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022
• During fetal development, aromatase expression in the brain is high in males.
  — New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2024
• No health conditions have yet been associated with overly high results on a fetal elastase test.
  — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
• That’s because space on a fetal heartbeat being detected, and that can happen really quickly.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 May 2022
• Some women have already been prosecuted for fetal harm due to alcohol and drug use during pregnancy.
  — Jeff Amy, ajc, 12 May 2022
• In current law, fetal viability is often used to mark the beginning of personhood.
  — Nancy S. Jecker, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
• Beyond that, it is allowed up to 22 weeks under certain circumstances, such as fetal abnormality.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• Readers will get a detailed course on how neurons and neurotransmitters work, the effects of stress on cognition, and the ways that fetal exposure to certain hormones can shape the brain.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
• Leilah Zahedi, a maternal-fetal-medicine physician in Tennessee, told me about a recent referral.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022
• Between June 24 and Sept. 14, the fetal heart tone ban was the law in Ohio.
  — cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
• What could have contributed to the slight decrease in Black fetal deaths?
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2023
• Where my posture takes shape in fetal and frog-like form, and no one is judging me for it.
  — Erika Houle, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• On the third day, Nuzzo, the nurse-midwife, induces the delivery of fetal tissue from the uterus.
  — Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The right-wing has been aiming for fetal personhood for a long time, and this ruling may be a shot across the bow from that cause.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
• The lawsuit made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the law in 2019 and said the state had an interest in how fetal remains are disposed.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Dec. 2022
• Other items included a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath, and a book about grieving the loss of a spouse.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
• But when a rare fetal defect threatened her life, she was thrust into post-Roe chaos.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• Making a cut in the gene releases the brakes, allowing cells to make the fetal type and override the abnormal adult kind.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• The results showed that the parchment was made from calf tissue, rather than fetal lamb tissue, as was long assumed.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
• The attorneys told the doctors that because of the fetal-heartbeat bill — because that 15-week-old had a heartbeat — ...
  — John McCormack, National Review, 1 Sep. 2022
• By then, a fetal monitor showed the baby's heartbeat had stopped.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• This means fetal cell lines were not used in its development.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• The fetal remains were found wedged inside the toilet bowl, according to the coroner's report.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Abortions are allowed after 24 weeks to save the life of the parent or in cases of fatal fetal anomalies.
  — Kinsey Crowley, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2024
• The ban outlaws all abortions except in the case of a fatal fetal anomaly and cases of serious health risk to the mother.
  — Casey Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
• As their names suggest, the fetus or fetal posture has the sleeper tucked in, both legs bent and supporting each other.
  — Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Twenty weeks is the point at which most first-time mothers can sense fetal movements, or quickening.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• With many of the other mutations that cause deafness, hair cells die during infancy or even at the fetal stage.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Does the vaccine protect against fetal harm even if the mother gets a breakthrough infection?
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024