fetal movement

1. 1.

   motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)

   Synonymsfoetal movement

   Broadermotion

   pregnancy

Questions about fetal movement

What does fetal movement mean?

fetal movement means "motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)".

What is another word for fetal movement?

Close synonyms include foetal movement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fetal movement a common word?

fetal movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.