Tom Frieden

It's understandable that when something new comes out that's unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We've never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations.

American Public Servant

Tom Allen

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

American Politician

Khloe Kardashian

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

American Entertainer

Curtis Sittenfeld

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

American Writer

Constance Marie

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

American Actress

Timothy Morton

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

English Philosopher

Christine O'Donnell

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Got freedom? Thank a man, or rather, thank all the men willing to die so the rest of us can go fetal in our safe spaces if somebody hurts our feelings.

British Activist

Robert Casey

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Ruben Diaz Sr.

In America, we are selling fetal tissue to be used in: the manufacture of cosmetics as well as for medical research.

The term 'fetal' is used frequently by healthcare professionals to discuss unborn baby health and development.

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'Fetal' is a technical term; use it in academic or medical discussions, but not in casual conversations.

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'Fetal' can evoke emotional responses when discussing pregnancy or health, so use it sensitively.

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 and explained that if she was not feeling well, she needed to come in and be seen. And this time Maria came in, and her doctor immediately sent her to the hospital. At the hospital, her doctor ordered urgent lab tests. They hooked her up to multiple different monitors and paid special attention to her blood pressure, the fetal heart rate tracing

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 tells the proto-gonads, which we all have in the fetal life, to become testes. So in the fetal life, those testes are pumping out testosterone. But because this individual lacks receptors to hear that testosterone, the body doesn't react to the testosterone. And this is a syndrome called androgen insensitivity syndrome.

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 is advanced paternal age, that is, increasing age of the father at the time of conception. In addition, another vulnerable and critical period in terms of development is when the mother is pregnant. During that period, while the fetal brain is developing, we know that exposure to certain agents

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 the middle of the summer the fact that she lost a little bit of vision in her right eye is probably a small price to considering the life she's going to have now with dr. Patty's medical approval Polly's now ready for adoption over on their backs and fetal them like a baby

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 and say we'll get through it in a weekend, or we lie in a fetal position and say we'll never get through it. Both of them are wrong. Look at enough of these and certain patterns become clear. For starters, life transitions have three phases. I call them the long goodbye,

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 imitating the melodic contours of those languages. Now why would this kind of fetal learning be useful? It may have evolved to aid the baby's survival. From the moment of birth, the baby responds most to the voice of the person who is most likely to care for it --

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 go lay in the fetal position or something right because it's too much it's such a roller coaster okay then the other thing is when we got here it wasn't immediately often obvious where the gift basket because work and my husband said so I wonder what's in

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 Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways.

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 into the version you're going to have as an adult in that critical moment. But pushing back even further, even further back to childhood and fetal life and all the different versions that that could come in.

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 And what about protection of fetal rights? If in fact you cared about protecting fetal rights, you'd spend a lot of time working to eliminate the alarming rate of infant mortality in this country.

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