Sentence examples for foetus for from inspiring English sources

"I don't suppose you will void your foetus for several weeks yet," he cajoled; he would make arrangements about the child on his return.

Before birth, the researchers were able to measure the level of testosterone they experienced in the womb because the mothers underwent amniocentesis — a procedure that involves doctors taking a sample of the fluid around the foetus — for other medical reasons.

Last year, Dominic Lawson wrote an article about the birth of his Down's syndrome baby, in which he explained why he and his wife had not tested the foetus for abnormalities.

I dread to think of how many of them were forced to carry a foetus for more time than necessary because the framework wasn't in place to offer them a means to an end when they first needed it.

The Bridget Jones movies have always had a conservative bent (essentially being Jane Austen adaptations set in a white version of modern London), but the new film goes a little further, with a bizarre scene in which Bridget flees an amniocentesis needle, thereby refusing to check her foetus for chromosomal abnormalities.

With limited and often very short-timed visits to their practitioners at public hospitals, pregnant Chinese women rarely get the opportunity to share moments such as seeing the foetus for the first time through an ultrasound or listening to its heartbeat with their husbands or family members.

AUGUST Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne runs for the US presidency with promises of a trippier national anthem and free giant jello foetuses for the homeless.

When it was recently announced that doctors could harvest eggs from dead foetuses for use in IVF treatment, she argued against banning the practice.

Eventually she heard about a specialist treatment and had a test only available at Epsom and Liverpool in the UK, which showed her body was mistaking the foetuses for foreign bodies and attacking them.

To enlarge on my earlier answer, Candida Brady, the director, thought long and hard about this and decided to show the foetuses for two reasons; firstly, because dioxins and furans, PCBs, etc, are all just words, until you can actually see and understand the impact these compounds are capable of having in the human body and on life in general.

More importantly, in mice there is competition between individual foetuses for maternal resources.