Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother and, because rubella cannot always be clearly diagnosed, the practice might easily be abused. But few progressive doctors would deny the need for grave measures. Australian statistics had shown that if a mother contracted the disease within the first six weeks of pregnancy, the chance of the fetus being deformed was almost 100%; if in the second six weeks, about 50%. Dr. Bass, while stressing that Australian statistics could not be applied to the rest of the world, reported that in seven cases he had observed recently he had found five backward children, two deaf mutes...
Manhattan Obstetrician Raphael Kurzrok believes that a large number of miscarriages are caused by "genital hypoplasia" (malformation plus deficient hormone activity). His analysis: in some women, because of insufficient output of estrogen (a female hormone) during pregnancy, expansion of the uterus fails to keep pace with growth of the fetus. Rupture of the membrane and miscarriage result...
...name for death) before he was 200. "Retirement" was sheer pleasure, anyway; cellular scientists simply reduced the living body, by rapid stages, first from maturity to infancy, then back into a cozy, synthetic womb (complete with umbilical cord), and finally to the stage where the heart of the "retiring" fetus ceased to beat...
...what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental barrier which tends to prevent transmission of disease from mother to child takes several months to develop fully; 2) the embyro is more susceptible to infection than the fetus later...
...eight weeks after conception, a human being is called an embryo; from then until birth, a fetus...