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Fetus

"Fetus" 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 unborn young of a viviparous mammal, in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after CONCEPTION until BIRTH, as distinguished from the earlier EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fetus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fetus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 150 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2000
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