AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the development and the size and localization of the diaphragm during the fetal period in human fetuses.
Fetal Period: From 10 weeks on in pregnancy, follows the embryonic period.
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Fetus: developing offspring in the uterus, generally from 10 weeks to birth.
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Fetal period: Time period following the embryonic period (first 10 weeks of gestation) until birth.
Fetus: Refers to the unborn baby after 10 weeks of gestation until birth.
Fetal Period - The period of time referring to the developing fetus from the eighth week after conception until delivery has occured.
She's in her fetal period, when the organs and tissues that took shape in the first trimester start to develop. Her intestines, originally part of the umbilical cord, have found a new home in her abdominal cavity.
The prenatal development in humans can be divided into two stages - embryonic development and fetal period. As soon as the fertilization occurs, the embryonic period begins. The human embryonic development has been divided into several stages.
Just as a baby's body size and shape change dramatically during the fetal period, her heart rate also changes with gestational age. As a baby grows in the womb and develops features for life after birth, her heart rate will change to reflect this.
By this time, your baby has covered the most critical portion of his growth, the beginning of such a period is known as the fetal period, when the various organs and tissues in the baby’s body have rapidly begun to grow and mature.
Week 10
Your baby may be up to 1 ¾ inches by now. This marks the end of the embryonic period and the beginning of the fetal period. Most congenital defects will have occurred by now.
This is the end of your embryonic period and the beginning of your fetal period. Baby is now considered a fetus! By the end of this week, baby's organs and systems are all formed, and now just continue to develop and grow.
the size of a kumquat - a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom - and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, ...
Felix Okah, as quoted in a Science Daily article on the study. "Adult diseases like obesity may have their foundation during the fetal period, so efforts to safeguard the health of the fetus could translate to future adult health for these newborns.
From approximately three months after conception the offspring take on a recognizable form (all parts in place, etc.). In human development, the period after the seventh or eighth week of pregnancy is the fetal period.
This decreased blood flow through the lungs after birth is called persistent fetal circulation because it is a persistence of the pattern of blood flow normally seen prior to birth during the fetal period.
 See also: Pregnancy, Pregnant, During pregnancy, Fetus, Uterus
  
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