Prenatal organism between the embryonic state and birth

concept

Rueff's Conceptu et generationi...

Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.

A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.

SEM of wounded mouse foetus

Crochet: A hooked medical instrument

Nesidioblastosis in the neonatal pancreas

An abnormal foetus in the womb, which is about to be naturally aborted. Engraving.

SEM of mouse foetus

Human reproduction and gestation: foetuses and the male and female reproductive systems in cross-section, and three nudes. Photograph, 1920/1940, of eight framed bas-reliefs, 18--?.

A couple kissing within a syringe from which a drop of liquid containing a fetus is released with a warning about the risk of sex, drugs and AIDS; advertisement for the Louisiana AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph.

Gregor. HorstI D. Dissertationes medicae tres, De natura amoris, De natura thermarum, De causis similitudinis et dissimilitudinis in foetu, respectu parentum : antehac in Academia Gissensi propositae et discussae, quibus annexae sunt resolutiones illustrium quarundam quaestionum medicarum.

The attitude and positions, natural and preternatural, of the fœtus in utero, acts of the reflex or excito-motory system / by J. Y. Simpson.

The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

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Fetus

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Human reproduction and gestation: foetuses and the male and female reproductive systems in cross-section, and three nudes. Photograph, 1920/1940, of eight framed bas-reliefs, 18--?.

A couple kissing within a syringe from which a drop of liquid containing a fetus is released with a warning about the risk of sex, drugs and AIDS; advertisement for the Louisiana AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph.

Gregor. HorstI D. Dissertationes medicae tres, De natura amoris, De natura thermarum, De causis similitudinis et dissimilitudinis in foetu, respectu parentum : antehac in Academia Gissensi propositae et discussae, quibus annexae sunt resolutiones illustrium quarundam quaestionum medicarum.

The attitude and positions, natural and preternatural, of the fœtus in utero, acts of the reflex or excito-motory system / by J. Y. Simpson.

The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

Fetus

Images from the collections

Images about Fetus

Works from the collections

Human reproduction and gestation: foetuses and the male and female reproductive systems in cross-section, and three nudes. Photograph, 1920/1940, of eight framed bas-reliefs, 18--?.

A couple kissing within a syringe from which a drop of liquid containing a fetus is released with a warning about the risk of sex, drugs and AIDS; advertisement for the Louisiana AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph.

Gregor. HorstI D. Dissertationes medicae tres, De natura amoris, De natura thermarum, De causis similitudinis et dissimilitudinis in foetu, respectu parentum : antehac in Academia Gissensi propositae et discussae, quibus annexae sunt resolutiones illustrium quarundam quaestionum medicarum.

The attitude and positions, natural and preternatural, of the fœtus in utero, acts of the reflex or excito-motory system / by J. Y. Simpson.

The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

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