fetal development
Embryo becoming baby
Fetal development is the process by which a fertilized egg grows into a fully formed baby ready for birth.
The term covers the entire progression from embryo through fetus, including the formation of organs, limbs, and body systems: a textbook on fetal development, Alcohol can interfere with fetal development.
In medical and political contexts, discussions of fetal development often center on viability—the point at which a fetus could survive outside the womb.
- fetusGestating offspring
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
- zygoteFirst embryonic cell
- first trimesterPregnancy's initial twelve weeks
- embryoOrganism before birth
nine months · placenta · pregnancy · baby bump · due date · quickening · maternal health · morning sickness · morphogenesis · teratogens · birth defects · neural tube · differentiation · organogenesis · prenatal · gestational diabetes · implantation · womb
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- maturationripening, maturing, growth, aging, puberty
- sex biologybiological sex, sex chromosomes, Y chromosome, XY, sex determination
fetal developmentinfant development
Newborn maturation stages
childhood development · adolescent development · early childhood development
fetal developmentsenescence
Gradual functional decline with age
degeneration · atrophy · deterioration · involution · aging
fetal developmentdeath
Cessation of life
end of life · aging · senescence · dying · terminal decline