During the Empire the death of the foetus was frequently procured both by abortifacients and instruments.
But if the foetus be doubled on itself and cannot be straightened, if the head is presenting, break up the bones of it without cutting the skin.
For if the attempt is made with an undilated cervix, not getting exit the foetus is broken up, and the point of the hook catches on the cervix and inflammation follows and much danger of death.
If the forceps fail the child is to be extracted by incision, as in the case of a foetus already dead (and decomposed so that the forceps would not hold).
Celsus has an interesting chapter on the removal of the foetus in difficult labour.
We may compare the passage on extraction of the foetus in Paul (VI.
A ring knife for dismembering the foetus has already been discussed among the cutting instruments; but this seems to be a different variety with a handle, which it is convenient to discuss in proximity to the embryo hook.
The severity of the condemnation depended upon the time at which the development of the foetus was interfered with.
But this I have learnt from some women, that when the foetus presents its head in the outlet, then the business fares well, because then the other members follow without difficulty, and an easy labour is the result.
Besides, it is impossible, under such protrusion, to ascertain the presenting part of the foetus with precision, because of the quantity of water which is then interposed between our finger and its person.
I have met," says he, "with instances in England where the foetus was expelled with more ease than I ever knew it to be at Sierra Leone.
Leeuwenhoek discovered in the incipient foetus of a sheep, not larger than the eighth part of a pea, all the principal parts of the future animal.
In the foetus the hands are on the cheeks and the chin is on the knee.
It is all bundled up in the foetus as if it was thrust into a pouch.
And we know that the entire world bears privation and torment and that man from his origin as foetus till the end of his days is subject to one suffering after another.
Those male and female children, O Kaurava, who are said to have been begotten by Skanda, are spirit of evil and they destroy the foetus in the womb.
The mother of the Apsaras removes the foetus from the womb, and for this reason such conceptions are said to be stationary by the learned.
It would appear impossible that in any species there should exist a well-developed uterus containing a full-sized foetus, and yet that the arch of the pelvis should be too small to allow the foetus to pass.
It is, on the whole, in favor of sacrificing the foetus whenever the interests of the mother demand such a sacrifice.
All these writers insist that the foetus is not yet an independent human being, and that every woman, by virtue of the right over her own body, is entitled to decide whether it shall become an independent human being.
Zeno and the Stoics regarded the foetus as the fruit of the womb, the soul being acquired at birth; this was in accordance with Roman law which decreed that the foetus only became a human being at birth.
Any change in the law should merely be, he considers, in the direction of asserting that the destruction of the foetus is not abortion in the legal sense, provided it is indicated by the rules of medical science.
If science cannot detect a difference, known to exist, between the foetus of an ape and the foetus of a child, it should not ask us to substitute the inferences, the presumptions and the probabilities of science for the word of God.
Of the sensations and motions of the foetusin the womb.
And towards the end of gestation, the foetus of all animals are proved to drink part of the liquid in which they swim, (Haller.
Section, it is evinced that thefoetus learns to swallow before its nativity; for it is seen to open its mouth, and its stomach is found filled with the liquid that surrounds it.
The repeated struggles of the foetus in the uterus must be owing to this internal irritation: for the foetus can have no other inducement to move its limbs but the tædium or irksomeness of a continued posture.
They exist as well in our sleep, as in our waking hours, as well in the foetus during the time of gestation, as in the infant after nativity, and proceed with equal regularity in the vegetable as in the animal system.
When it is taken to the closed door of a house, it has the power to entice a pregnant woman, when the foetus is removed (cf.
The foetus is cut to pieces, and smoked over a fire.
Care is taken that the foetus does not touch the ground, as the potency of the drug would thereby be ruined.
From the foetus a liquid exudes, which is collected in the lower vessel.
The chief ingredient in the preparation of pilla thilam, or baby oil, is the sixth or seventh month's foetus of a primipara, who should belong to a caste other than that of the sorcerer.
The uterus then contracts, and the foetus emerges.
Manzini[20] has recorded a case in which lesions of Peyer's patches similar to those of typhoid fever were found in a seventh-month foetus which died within half an hour after its birth.
The disease affects individuals of all ages and both sexes, not sparing thefoetus in utero, and, in the case of the latter, occurring both with and without previous infection of the mother of the unborn child.
Sometimes the impression of this diathesis is so intense as to devitalize the foetus in utero, causing still-birth.
It may first be mentioned that pre-natal vaccination has been advocated by some authors; that is to say, the vaccinal infection of the foetus in utero by vaccinating the mother during gestation.
Withdraw the water, and inject as much strong fluid as possible so that the foetus will be surrounded with fluid, and in that way preserved.
In the foetus, the greater part of the framework is cartilaginous and as the foetus matures this cartilage is finally replaced by bone.
After the three months stage, the circulation, by direct flow, is stopped and fluid could only reach the foetus by absorption from the placenta.
The umbilical cord connects the body of the foetus with the placenta, and conveys the foetal blood to and from the placenta to the child.
In other instances the human foetus passes through this lemurian stage to reach and even exceed the anthropoid in smallness and closeness together.
The germ of the disease may be inherited, or general nutrition of the foetus may be so checked in development that the child inherits a predisposition to disease.
Mental changes of the mother hence excite motor reactions in the foetus, and, as with sensorial excitations, these reactions are stronger in the foetus than in the mother.
The influence of maternal diet on the foetus is excellently illustrated in the results of the "fruit diet" advised by certain vegetarians.
Psychic troubles in the mother may react upon the foetus in an analogous way.
As Fere[80] has shown, the foetus exhibits very decided reaction to sensory impressions on the mother.
In many instances these are retentions of positions assumed by the limbs of the foetus in the course of evolution, and are therefore, in the adult, expressions of degeneracy.
The prominent facts which show the influence of the psychic state of the mother upon the somatic condition of the foetus explain the action of the imagination of the mother upon the development of the product of conception.
In the human foetus the joint cavities are all formed by the tenth week of intra-uterine life.
If within the left ear of a foetus there are three ears with the inner sides well formed, thy ally will become hostile.
If behind the left ear of the foetus there is a second ear, confusion in the land, the land will be destroyed[63].
We have here two quotations from a text furnishing all kinds of peculiarities connected with a double foetus and we are fortunate in having the text from which the quotations are made[23].
If it is a double foetus with only one breast, the land will be enlarged, rule of a legitimate king.
If it is a double foetus with only one head and one spine, eight feet, two necks and two tails, the king will enlarge his land.
If a woman gives birth to a foetusin which there is a second, the rule of the king and of his sons will come to an end .
If within the right ear of a foetus there are three ears with the inner sides well formed, the opponent will conclude peace with the king whom he fears, the army of the ruler will dwell in peace with him.
If the left ear of the foetus lies near the cheek, an enemy will be installed in the royal palace.
If the right ear of the foetus is destroyed, the stall will be enlarged, the stall of the enemy will be diminished.
If behind the right ear of the foetus there is a second ear, the ruler will have counsellors.
One foetus issuing from the other, or one within the other, appears to have been a favorable or an unfavorable sign, according to the position of the second.
If the ears of a foetus are choked up[66], in place of a large king a small king will be in the land.
If a foetus gives birth to a second foetus[47], the king will assert himself against his opponent.
Dupuy and Andral have seen tubercles in the foetus of the sheep.
Frommen in the foetus of the sheep, into which it could not have been conveyed by transmission from the mother, as there is no direct vascular communication between the foetal and maternal side.
I have seen a similar condition of the heart in the human foetus about the beginning of the third month, the heart then being whitish and bloodless, although its auricles contained a considerable quantity of purple blood.
And how should the arteries of the foetus draw air into their cavities through the abdomen of the mother and the body of the womb?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foetus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.