Fetal

Definition: Fetal

Fetal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development".

Note: Fetal \Fe"tal\, adjective. [From Fetus.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Fetal

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Of, relating to, or resembling a fetus. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Fetal

Synonym: foetal (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fetal

English words defined with "fetal": afterbirth, Allantoin, allantois, amniocentesis ♦ Cephalotome, Cephalotomy, chorioallantoic membrane, chorioallantois, chorionic, chorionic villus, conceptus, congenital ♦ electronic fetal monitor, electronic foetal monitor, embryo, erythroblastosis fetalis, Ethmovomerine plate ♦ fertilized egg, fetal age, fetal alcohol syndrome, fetal circulation, fetal distress, fetal membrane, fetal monitor, fetal movement, fetoscope, fetoscopy, foetal monitor, foetoscope, foetoscopy ♦ Haematoplastic, hyaline cartilage ♦ inborn, inherent, innate ♦ Labidometer ♦ sonogram, sonography, sphenoid bone, Squamozygomatic ♦ Thymus body, thymus gland ♦ ultrasonography, ultrasound. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fetal": Abortion, Eugenic, alpha-MSH ♦ Cardiotocography, Chorioamnionitis, Chorionic Villi Sampling, Coloboma, coloboma of choroid, coloboma of the choroid, Cordocentesis ♦ demographic statistics, Diiodothyronines ♦ Ectogenesis, EGG PROCESSOR, Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood ♦ Fetal Anoxia, Fetal Blood, Fetal Death, Fetal Development, Fetal Growth Retardation, Fetal Heart, Fetal Hemoglobin, Fetal Macrosomia, Fetal Membranes, Premature Rupture, Fetal Monitoring, Fetal Organ Maturity, Fetal Resorption, Fetal Tissue Transplantation, Fetal Viability, Fetal Weight, Freemartinism ♦ Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor ♦ Harder gland, Heart Rate, Fetal, Hydrops Fetalis ♦ Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Insulin-Like Growth Factor II ♦ Labor Complications, Labor Presentation, Lupus Coagulation Inhibitor ♦ Maternal Age 35 and over, Maternal-Fetal Exchange ♦ Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Neural tube defects ♦ Oligohydramnios ♦ Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome, population statistics, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects ♦ Rh Isoimmunization ♦ spalding, Spalding sign ♦ Triiodothyronine, Reverse ♦ Ultrasonography, Prenatal, Uterine Monitoring, UTP-Hexose-1-Phosphate Uridylyltransferase ♦ Version, Fetal. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fetal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (fetal, foetal), German (fetal, foetal), Portuguese (ferny, fetal, foetal), Spanish (fetal, foetal).

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Modern Usage: Fetal

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Fetal Heart Echography (1980)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fetal

Domain	Title
Books	Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual, Fetal Pig Version, Media Update with PhysioEx 4.0 (7th Edition) (reference) The Best I Can Be: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-Effects (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Archives Of Disease In Childhood - Fetal And Neonatal Editio (reference) Fetal And Maternal Medicine Review (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Fetal

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Photo Album: Fetal

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shown is a computer graphic of tgf-beta molecule. Tgf-beta belongs to a superfamily of fetal inducers and regressors, which signal specific patterns of cellular differentiation. Tgf-beta, a cytokine with three different isoforms, regulates many cellular functions including cell proliferation, differentiation, adhesion and migration. Four novel receptors were characterized that also act as serine/threonine kinases and one of these appears to be a tgf-beta receptor.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Polydactylia, a congenital abnormality with the occurrence of extra fingers or toes, is due to errors in the process of fetal development, and can usually be corrected by surgery.Credit: CDC.
	Reported incidence rate of fetal alcohol syndrome, by year of birth, from the Birth Defects Monitoring Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1979-1992.Credit: NIAA.		Illustration of the craniofacial features associated with fetal alcohol syndrome.Credit: NIAA.
	Semana Nacional De Prevencion Del Sindrome Fetal Del Alcohol.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Danish poster showing the profile of a pregnant woman and a child possibly feeling for fetal movement].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fetal

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Fetal tissue research. (references)
		Fetal movement records. (references)
		Another way of encouraging regeneration is to implant fetal tissue. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fetal

"Fetal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Fetal" is used about 354 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
Adjective (general or positive)	99.44%	352	15,213
Noun (proper)	0.56%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	354	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Fetal

Expressions using "fetal": electronic fetal monitor ♦ fetal age ♦ Fetal Alcohol Syndrome ♦ Fetal Anoxia ♦ Fetal Blood ♦ fetal circulation ♦ Fetal Death ♦ Fetal Development ♦ Fetal Distress ♦ Fetal Growth Retardation ♦ Fetal Heart ♦ fetal heart sound ♦ Fetal Hemoglobin ♦ Fetal Macrosomia ♦ fetal membrane ♦ Fetal Membranes ♦ fetal monitor ♦ Fetal Monitoring ♦ fetal movement ♦ Fetal Organ Maturity ♦ Fetal Resorption ♦ Fetal Tissue Transplantation ♦ Fetal Viability ♦ Fetal Weight ♦ Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "fetal": maternal-fetal.
	Containing "fetal": Maternal-Fetal Exchange.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fetal

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
fetal development	1,604	stage of fetal development	53
fetal alcohol syndrome	1,038	fetal circulation	51
fetal pig dissection	244	fetal right	49
fetal development picture	240	fetal ultrasound	48
fetal movement	232	diagram fetal pig	44
bovine fetal production serum	207	fetal pig anatomy	43
fetal picture	157	desarrollo fetal	41
fetal heart rate	153	fetal hiccups	41
fetal pig	150	fetal fibronectin	41
fetal heartbeat	123	disection fetal pig	38
fetal growth	115	chart fetal growth	38
fetal photo	114	fetal ultrasound picture	37
by development fetal week week	98	fetal heart monitor	37
fetal fotos	86	fetal pole	37
fetal alcohol syndrome picture	85	fetal image	36
fetal development photo	72	fetal alcohol	35
fetal monitor	71	fetal demise	35
fetal doppler	70	fetal surgery	35
fetal	66	fetal stage	34
fetal development pregnancy	59	fetal growth picture	33
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fetal

Language		Translations for "fetal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fetal (foetal), i fetusit (foetal), embrional (embryonic, foetal, germinal, incipient). (various references)

Arabic		‏خاص بالجنين (foetal), ‏جنيني (embryonic, foetal, genetic, genetical, germinal), ‏جنين (embryo, fetus, foetal, foetus). (various references)

Bulgarian		зародишен (antenatal, embryo, foetal, germinal, seminal), ембрионален (embryo, embryonic, foetal). (various references)

Chinese		胎儿 (fetus, Fetuses, foetal, foetus). (various references)

Czech		plodový (foetal). (various references)

Danish		føtal (foetal). (various references)

Dutch		foetaal (foetal). (various references)

Finnish		fetaalinen alkoholioireyhtymä (fetal alcohol syndrome, foetal alcohol syndrome), tarjonta (fetal presentation, foetal presentation, presentation, supply), sikiövaurio (fetal damage), sikiön verinäytteen otto (fetal blood sampling, foetal blood sampling), sikiön tarjonta (fetal presentation, foetal presentation, presentation), sikiön alkoholioireyhtymä (fetal alcohol syndrome, foetal alcohol syndrome), presentaatio (fetal presentation, foetal presentation, presentation), kohdunsisäisen kasvun hidastuma (fetal growth retardation, foetal growth retardation, intrauterine growth retardation), alipainoinen keskosuus (fetal growth retardation, foetal growth retardation, intrauterine growth retardation). (various references)

French		foetal, f�"tal. (various references)

German		fötal (foetal), fetal (foetal). (various references)

Greek		εμβρυϊκός (embryonal, foetal), εμβρυακόσ (foetal), εμβρυογενής (foetal). (various references)

Hebrew		עוברי (embryonic, foetal). (various references)

Hungarian		magzati (foetal, germinal). (various references)

Italian		fetale (foetal). (various references)

Korean		태아 (fetus, Fetuses, foetal, foetus). (various references)

Pig Latin		etalfay

Portuguese		fetal (ferny, foetal), engrinaldar (garlic, stringing, wreathe). (various references)

Russian		плодный (foetal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fetalan. (various references)

Spanish		fetal (foetal). (various references)

Swedish		foster- (foetal, germinal). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับทารกในครร� ์ (foetal). (various references)

Turkish		cenine ait (foetal). (various references)

Ukranian		утробний (antenatal, foetal), зародковий (embryonic, foetal, germinal, primordial, seminal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Fetal

Misspellings
	"Fetal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eeshal, efta, etal, Etaul, etil, Ettal, fatah, fatalr, fatals, fattal, faval, Fayal, Faysal, fazal, fealt, fecta, feeta, feja, femaal, femal, fenal, fentle, Fepa, fetals, fetas, fetay, fe-ti, fetia, fetial, Fetilia, fetta, fettae, fettel, fidal, Fietzau, Fietzav, fital, fitba, Fittall, Fleetrak, Ftao, Fteah, ftel, futal, futbal, fyta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fetal"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fetal" (pronounced fē"tul)
4	-ē" t u l	beetle, varietal.
3	-t u l	accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle.
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Anagrams: Fetal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-t"
	-1 letter: alef, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, flat, flea, late, leaf, left, tael, tale, teal, tela.
	-2 letters: aft, ale, alt, ate, eat, eft, elf, eta, fat, fet, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel.
	-3 letters: ae, al, at, ef, el, et, fa, la, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-t"
	+1 letter: falter, fealty, featly, festal, fetial, foetal, folate.
	+2 letters: default, deflate, falcate, falsest, falters, fateful, fatless, fatlike, faulted, fellate, fetials, filiate, flasket, flatbed, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, fleapit, floated, floatel, floater, flotage, folates, foliate, hateful, inflate, leaflet, reflate, refloat, refutal, sulfate, tearful.
	+3 letters: affluent, aflutter, antileft, antilife, califate, conflate, deadlift, deathful, defaults, deflated, deflater, deflates, deflator, facelift, facetely, falcated, falconet, falsetto, faltered, falterer, fatherly, faultier, fauteuil, fayalite, fealties, feastful, featlier, fellated, fellates, fellatio, fellator, festally, festival, fetiales, fetialis, filament, filature, filiated, filiates, filtrate, fistulae, fittable, flakiest, flameout, flamiest, flaskets, flatbeds, flatfeet, flathead, flatlets, flatline, flatmate, flatness, flattens, flatters, flattery, flattest, flatuses, flatware, flatwise, flaunted, flaunter, flawiest, flaxiest, fleabite, fleapits, fleawort, floatage, floatels, floaters, floatier, flotages, fluxgate, foliated, foliates, folktale, fontanel, forestal, frailest, gatefold, grateful, halftime, halftone, hasteful, inflated, inflater, inflates, kalifate, leafiest, leaflets, leftward, lifeboat, liftable, liftgate, meatloaf, outfable, pantofle, plateful, reflated, reflates, refloats, refutals, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, tableful, taffarel, tafferel, talkfest, tasteful, wasteful.
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