Embryonic Structure
fetal heart
fe·tal heart
Subclass of:
Heart;
Fetus
Definitions related to fetal heart:
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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.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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The muscular pump-like organ of blood circulation that develops during the fetal stage of growth.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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