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Fetal growth: an overview

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Fetal Growth

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We have learned that the genetic material contained in the fertilised ovum controls cell division and tissue development, given that the environment surrounding the embryo and the fetus, provided by the mother, is satisfactory.

“Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your fetus grow?” “To tell the truth kind Sir,” she said, “I really do not know” “Well listen Mary while I tell The where, the why and how”

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  1. Professor F. Cockburn
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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Clinical Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK

    F. Sharp MD, FRCOG  & R. B. Fraser MD, FRCOG, DCH  & 

  2. Department of Paediatrics, University of Sheffield, Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2TH, UK

    R. D. B. Milner MA, ScD (Cantab), MD (Lond), FRCP (Lond)

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Cockburn, F. (1989). Fetal growth: an overview. In: Sharp, F., Fraser, R.B., Milner, R.D.B. (eds) Fetal Growth. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1707-0_13

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