Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Gestation; pregnancy; the state of being with child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
formation of afetus in thewomb ;pregnancy .
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Examples
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Sulikowski 5.82 relates an instance of congenital fetation in the umbilicus of a girl of fourteen, who recovered after the removal of the anomaly.
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Argles 2.39 mentions simultaneous extrauterine fetation and superfetation.
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Argles mentions simultaneous extrauterine fetation and superfetation.
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Many of the older writers mention this form of fetation as a curiosity, but offer no explanation as to its cause.
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Sulikowski relates an instance of congenital fetation in the umbilicus of a girl of fourteen, who recovered after the removal of the anomaly.
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Barely two hundred years, and withotit super - fetation in the first settlers!
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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2.1 Many of the older writers mention this form of fetation as a curiosity, but offer no explanation as to its cause.
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