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Definition: FETUSES |
FETUSESPlural1. Of Fetus |
Date "FETUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Crosswords: FETUSES |
| English words defined with "FETUSES": Aristolochia clematitis ♦ birthwort ♦ pro-life, pro-lifer ♦ superfetation ♦ triploid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FETUSES": Biological Assay ♦ Pregnancy Reduction, Multifetal ♦ Rh Isoimmunization. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FETUSES": fetus. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The lungs are enlarged, heavy, uniformly firm, and yellow-white in color. 70% of all pregnant women with untreated primary syphilis may transmit the infection to their fetuses.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In actuality, stroke strikes all age groups, from fetuses still in the womb to centenarians. (references) | |
Fetuses and newborn babies may acquire CMV before or during birth from a mother with an active infection. (references) | ||
Ongoing research is testing potential treatments that may one day help prevent stroke in fetuses and newborns. (references) | ||
Business | One newspaper article quoted a doctor as saying that as many as 97.5 percent of pregnancies terminated in his hospital were of female fetuses. (references) | |
Children | India | The tests are misused widely for sex determination, and termination of a disproportionate number of pregnancies with female fetuses occurs. (references) |
Korea | Although the law bans fetal testing except when a woman's life is in danger, when a hereditary disease would be transmitted, or in cases of rape or incest, such testing and the subsequent termination of pregnancies with female fetuses frequently occur. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FETUSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FETUSES" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fetuses picture | 23 |
fetuses | 14 |
aborted fetuses picture | 11 |
aborted fetuses | 10 |
fetuses twin | 5 |
fetuses photo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FETUSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 胎儿 (fetal, fetus, foetal, foetus). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 태아 (fetal, fetus, foetal, foetus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | etusesfay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"FETUSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Festuea, Fetisov, fetisso, fetuse, fetusus, feuse, Feustel, foetuses, Foruzesh, Freitases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FETUSES" (pronounced fē"tusuz) |
| 6 | -ē" t u s u z | treatises. |
| 5 | -t u s u z | apparatuses, apprentices, hostesses, injustices, justices, notices, poultices, prospectuses, tortoises. |
| 4 | -u s u z | accomplices, actresses, addresses, aliases, amaryllises, biases, bonuses, businesses, buttresses, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, caucuses, censuses, choruses, circuses, congresses, crevices, crocuses, embarrasses, encompasses, eyewitnesses, focuses, fortresses, furnaces, geniuses, goddesses, grimaces, harnesses, hippopotamuses, hospices, illnesses, irises, likenesses, mattresses, minuses, mistresses, necklaces, novices, offices, omnibuses, orifices, palaces, penises, porpoises, prejudices, premises, promises, purchases, purposes, refocuses, repurchases, retroviruses, seamstresses, services, sinuses, stewardesses, surfaces, surpluses, terraces, viruses, waitresses, walruses, weaknesses, witnesses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, aces, acquaintances, advances, affixes, albatrosses, allegiances, alliances, allowances, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, appearances, appendixes, appliances, asses, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, balances, bases, basses, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, Busses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, Casas, cases, cayuses, ceases, chances, chases, choices, circumstances, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embraces, eminences, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, forces, foxes, fragrances, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, headdresses, hindrances, hisses, hoaxes, horses, houses, hyraxes, ices, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, medusas, messes, minibuses, misses, missus, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, nieces, nixes, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, ordinances, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, paradoxes, passes, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, possesses, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, pronounces, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, senses, sentences, sequences, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surpasses, surtaxes, taxes, tolerances, tosses, townhouses, traces, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, voices, waltzes, waxes, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fusees. | |
-2 letters: fesse, fetes, fetus, fusee, fuses, suets. | |
-3 letters: efts, eses, fees, feet, fess, fete, fets, feus, fuse, fuss, sees, sets, sues, suet, tees, uses. | |
-4 letters: efs, eft, ess, fee, fet, feu, see, set, sue, tee, use, uts. | |
-5 letters: ef, es, et, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: foetuses. | |
+2 letters: stupefies. | |
+3 letters: feedstuffs, fremituses, futileness, futureless, interfuses, perfusates, surfeiters, unsafeties. | |
+4 letters: fatefulness, featureless, fretfulness, furtiveness, fustinesses, greenstuffs, hatefulness, pestiferous, restfullest, restfulness, subterfuges, tearfulness, tunefulness, unfitnesses, zestfulness. | |
+5 letters: artfulnesses, butterfishes, cuttlefishes, eventfulness, faultinesses, fitfulnesses, fluorescents, frequentness, fruitinesses, fugitiveness, futilenesses, gratefulness, housefathers, spitefullest, spitefulness, stuffinesses, suffragettes, superinfects, tastefulness, wastefulness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 54 55 53 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . - ..- ... . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010100 01010101 01010011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E T U S E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0054 0055 0053 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40395455533953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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