Medical Encyclopedia
24-week fetus
At 24 weeks the fetus:
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has fully devloped eyes
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has a hand and startle reflex
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is forming footprints and fingerprints
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is forming alveoli in lungs
Update Date: 10/19/2007
Updated by: Deirdre O’Reilly, MD, MPH, Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Review Provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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