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fetal

adj
/ˈfitl̩/

Etymology

From fetus + -al.

  1. learned borrowing from fētus — “offspring”
  2. suffixed as fetal — “fetus + al”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.

    • fetal circulation
    • fetal membranes

  2. In the fetal position.

    • I was fetal on my left side, unable to move. My legs fell off my queen-sized bed and were propped up by a rocking chair.
    • By 12:00 when Keith arrived home with Connor, I was fetal on the couch and praying for a quick death.
    • Gage had gone foetal: knees raised, chin ducked , arms shielding his head.

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Derived

afetal, early fetal demise, embryofetal, extrafetal, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, fetally, fetalness, fetal position, fetofetal, go fetal, intrafetal, maternofetal, multifetal, nonfetal, oncofetal, Pinard fetal stethoscope, postfetal, uterofetal

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fetal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA