Word: foetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultrasound's advantage comes clearest in the case of pregnant women. No one wants to subject them to X rays because of possible harm to mother and foetus. In Denver, Dr. Holmes's colleagues have measured the skull diameter of unborn babies accurately to within one-eighth of an inch in 95 of 100 cases. And there is no evidence that ultrasound, properly used, has any harmful effects even on such sensitive targets as the unborn child, the reproductive system, or the human...
...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...