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Fetal Heart

"Fetal Heart" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The heart of the fetus of any viviparous animal. It refers to the heart in the postembryonic period and is differentiated from the embryonic heart (HEART/embryology) only on the basis of time.


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Bar chart showing 8 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2009 and 2015
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