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Fetus
Human fetus

A fetus or foetus is the stage that an organism goes through before it is born as a baby. In humans a fetus is the stage (time of development) after the embryonic stage, and begins during the third to eighth week of development after fertilization of the egg. The fetal stage lasts from 8 weeks after fertilization to birth.

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  • Fetus 3 months

    A human fetus, attached to placenta, at three months gestational age.

  • Fetal circulation

    Diagram of the human fetal circulatory system.

  • Elefetusus

    Fourteen phases of elephant development before birth

  • Walembryo 2

    Fetal stage of a porpoise

  • Sucking his thumb and waving

    Fetus at 4+1⁄4 months

  • 3dultrasound 20 weeks

    Fetus at 5 months

See also

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