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fetus

noun
/ˈfiːtəs/

Etymology

A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

  1. learned borrowing from fētus — “offspring”

Definitions

  1. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.

    • Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.

  2. A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.

    • The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.

  3. A neonate.

The neighborhood

Derived

fetal, feticide, fetopathy, fetucide, fetus deletus, fetus fetishist, fetuslike, grandfetus, multifetus, superfetation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fetus. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fetus. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at fetus

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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