837: What does the word “Fetus” Mean? What is a Fetus? Dr. Taylor Marshall explains [Podcast]
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Dr. Taylor Marshall
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🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Someone asked me, Dr. Marshall, what is the word fetus mean? |
| 0:09.3 | What is a fetus? |
| 0:13.4 | People typically, when they find out they're pregnant, you know, a young, recently married |
| 0:19.0 | woman, doesn't call her mom and say, guess what, mom, I have a fetus inside of me. |
| 0:23.6 | In fact, usually we hear the term fetus in medical discussions or when there's debate |
| 0:32.7 | on the A word, on abortion. |
| 0:35.4 | People say, oh, it's just a fetus, it's not a baby, it's not a real person. |
| 0:40.5 | Is that a proper use of the word fetus? |
| 0:44.2 | So today I'm going to use the original Latin, fetus is a Latin word. |
| 0:49.6 | Also it's etymological root in Greek and we're going to find out today what the word fetus |
| 0:57.3 | means. |
| 0:58.3 | And then I'm also going to go through the 20th, 21st century medical usage of fetus |
| 1:07.5 | as distinct from embryo. |
| 1:11.0 | Okay, so that's today's show. |
| 1:13.8 | And for those of you that are new, we always begin the show with a prayer and we do it in |
| 1:18.7 | Latin, especially appropriate today because we're going to be talking about Latin quite |
| 1:23.6 | a bit. |
| 1:24.8 | So let's go ahead and get started and I'll put the words up on the screen so you can |
| 1:29.8 | follow on. |
| 1:30.8 | Oramos. |
| 1:32.7 | And normally, parthries et fidi espiritus sangti. |
| 1:36.2 | Amen. |
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