1 She's a world authority on foetal development.

2 Some foetal abnormalities can now be detected antenatally.

3 The phenomenon occurs during early foetal development.

4 She lay curled up in a foetal position .

5 Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy.

6 Emily was curled up in a foetal position, naked, on the floor, sobbing.

7 The new developments include very early sampling of foetal tissue to detect defective genes.

8 And oxygen deficiency during the foetal stage may inhibit brain development and size at birth, with or without other defect.

9 Physicians were obliged to inform abortion patients about foetal development and the alternatives to terminating the pregnancy.

10 Some drugs are known to cause foetal damage and should not be taken during pregnancy.

11 The soap can cause foetal damage, anaemia and kidney failure if too much is absorbed through the skin.

12 He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat.

13 Doctors have long suspected an association between foetal abnormality and alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

14 His legs were curled beneath him in a foetal position.

15 It consists of foetal tissues and mother's tissues with the tissues interdigitated.

16 The viruses were isolated by cocultivation of sheep foetal lung cells and the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of goats inoculated with ovine progressive pneumonia virus (OPPV).

17 The foetal monitor lets doctors read signals produced naturally by the unborn baby's heart.

18 An increasing number of tests are available for detecting foetal abnormalities.

19 A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.

20 This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg.

21 McAggott climbed over the sergeant, who had assumed the foetal position, and staggered back to his office.

22 He was a short man, slight in build, and was curled up in the foetal position.

23 The spasms nearly always cause targets to curl into a foetal position.

24 Recently I treated her for a sexually transmitted disease with metronidazole, which is known to cause foetal abnormalities in rats.

25 Some even resort in the middle of a battle to lying motionless in a foetal position.

26 She curl up her leg and arms into a foetal position.

27 Amniotic fluid acts as a lubricant at the birth of the baby. NOT during foetal development.

28 The artificial organs were created in a laboratory using human amniotic fluid and animal foetal cells.

29 He was probably put on a gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position.