foetal movement

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfetal movement

   Broadermotion

   pregnancy

Questions about foetal movement

What does foetal movement mean?

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

What is another word for foetal movement?

Close synonyms include fetal 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 foetal movement a common word?

foetal 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.