Definition of Fetal age

1. Noun. The age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization.

Exact synonyms: Fertilization Age, Gestational Age
Generic synonyms: Age

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetal Age

festooneries
festoonery
festooning
festoons
festoony
fests
festschrift
festschriften
festucine
festucous
festue
festues
festy
feta
fetal
fetal age (current term)
fetal alcohol syndrome
fetal circulation
fetal distress
fetal membrane
fetal monitor
fetal movement
fetal position
fetal positions
fetally
fetas
fetations
fetch
fetch away

Literary usage of Fetal age

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles and practice of infant feeding by Julius Hays Hess (1922)
"... indicate that this varies within considerable limits, even in infants of the same fetal age, as does also their ability to digest and assimilate food. ..."

2. Post-mortem pathology: A Manual of Post-mortem Examinations and the by Henry Ware Cattell (1905)
"The fetal age of the child in the first five months about equals the square root of the height expressed in centimetres. For example, if the height is ..."

3. The People by J. L. Angel (1971)
"... of the infant mortality estimate should represent stillbirths—possibly 30 to 60 per thousand births—and the fact that no bones of early fetal age ..."

4. Deterioration of the Puritan Stock and Its Causes by John Ellis (1884)
"... this feeling has changed, and the slaughter now goes on without so much reference to fetal age as to the convenience of the should be mother. ..."

5. Medical Communications by Massachusetts Medical Society (1860)
"case of bastardy, and will be called upon to give his opinion, as an expert, as to the fetal age of the child at its birth. In such cases, would he not ..."

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