foetal distress

1. 1.

   an abnormal condition of a fetus; usually discovered during pregnancy and characterized by an abnormal heart rhythm

   Synonymsfetal distress

   Broaderabnormality

Questions about foetal distress

What does foetal distress mean?

foetal distress means "an abnormal condition of a fetus; usually discovered during pregnancy and characterized by an abnormal heart rhythm".

What is another word for foetal distress?

Close synonyms include fetal distress. 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 foetal distress a common word?

foetal distress 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.