Word: fetuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pregnant, and not some distant feminist or crisis-prone soap opera character. I had to decide whether to have an abortion or bring my fetus to term. For a month I had been feeling moody, physically ill and consistently hungry. Yet there was something very exciting about the realization that I was pregnant, that I was fertile and could conceive; I couldn't help thinking that I could give birth to a baby who would perhaps love its mother very much and grow into a wonderful human being...
...white shirt said "This is for the 14-year-old CHILD (his student) that my father raped and for her fetus that was aborted. I guess I was lucky not to get pregnant [when she herself was raped]...I wish I could meet that other survivor (I feel guilty...
...pregnancies. According to the government, Jacobson was giving patients hormone treatments that simulated the effects of early pregnancy. At hearings before a committee of the Virginia Board of Medicine in 1989, several women wept as they described how Jacobson would show them sonograms of what he said was their fetus, pointing out nonexistent heartbeats, fetal movements and thumb-sucking. He would give them fetal snapshots to take home -- only to announce several weeks later that their baby had died...
Surfactant production can also be stimulated by the delivery of glucocorticoid, a steroid, to pregnant women. The fetus secretes surfactant into the amniotic fluid, which can then be tested by doctors in amniocentesis to determine whether or not the newborn will have...
Because of this high level of glucose passed through the placenta by the mother, a large amount of insulin will be produced by the non-diabetic fetus...