How to Use fetal in a Sentence

fetal

adjective
  • Buskmiller and the team would need to do a fetal blood transfusion.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 23 Dec. 2025
  • For some visits, moms can check the fetal heartbeat via a doppler.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 29 June 2020
  • Where my posture takes shape in fetal and frog-like form, and no one is judging me for it.
    — Erika Houle, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • This example is a little more like the case of fetal stem cells.
    — Steven P. Millies, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2021
  • How does a fetal abduction take place?
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • When a nurse attempted to detect a fetal heart rate, none was found.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 20 Nov. 2025
  • All of the cells are derived from adult stem cells and do not require any fetal tissue.
    — cleveland, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This means fetal cell lines were not used in its development.
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
  • In the past, some vaccines used fetal stem cells, but Izard said that is not the case anymore.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2021
  • And what sets up the initial conditions is the initial shape of the brain when in a fetal state.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • That can lead to miscarriage, fetal death or stillbirth.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the work so far has used fetal bovine serum, which is harvested from cow fetuses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • Parts of the fetal skull had adhered to her intestines and were taken out, the lawsuit said.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • In cases of rape, fetal impairment, or if the mother's life is at risk.
    — Karol Suarez, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Grimm, who has a high-deductible health plan, first tried a $10 pill to clear the fetal tissue.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • What could have contributed to the slight decrease in Black fetal deaths?
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Next was a brief clip showing a screen with a sound spectrum display, and a fetal heartbeat was heard.
    — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • But when a rare fetal defect threatened her life, she was thrust into post-Roe chaos.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • There are no exceptions to the ban for fatal fetal anomalies.
    — Eva Epker, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • But the idea of fetal pain, which seems to be the focus of that statement, is one that continues to come up.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 6 Feb. 2019
  • By then, a fetal monitor showed the baby's heartbeat had stopped.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But because fetal heart tones were detected, nothing could be done.
    — Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The complaint said pieces of the fetal skull were removed from the woman’s intestine one piece at a time.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Teams working in neonatal and fetal medicine are focused on a practical goal.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Epilepsy researchers have long surmised that fetal cells from human embryos may be able to ease seizures in the brain.
    — Emily Mullin, Science, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The right-wing has been aiming for fetal personhood for a long time, and this ruling may be a shot across the bow from that cause.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The results showed that the parchment was made from calf tissue, rather than fetal lamb tissue, as was long assumed.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In January, a state judge struck down Iowa’s fetal heartbeat law.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • And how common is fetal abduction?
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • The same fetal cell lines have also been used in the development of ibuprofen and aspirin.
    — Melissa Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022

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