fetal

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
In our base business, we now expect to invest 70 million to 75 million to acquire neonatal, maternal-fetal, and pediatric cardiology practices.

View all »
Definitions (4)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. adjective Of, relating to, characteristic of, or being a fetus.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • A shock wave passed through me as I recognized him, saw what seven years of dissipation could do to a beautiful face, and I wobbled on the stepladder, sitting kind of fetal-sidesaddle to regroup, shivering and crying and thinking how much Sean and he looked alike, and wishing I'd never agreed to take the case. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
  • Their faces were narrow and fetal, their ears pointed. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • On their view, some human beings, such as those in the embryonic, fetal, and early infant stages, and those in severely mentally debilitated conditions, such as the profoundly retarded, are not —  U.S. News
  • Multilocular - fetal or immature form; with multiple lipid droplets C. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Maiacetus inuus, that include an adult female skeleton, a near term fetal skeleton, and an adult male skeleton. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

Tags

fetal hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 39 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Also written fætal; from fetus 4- -al.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈfitəl/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

donne · are · par · betrayed · pasty

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

its not like im ugly people tell me im pretty · be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard