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Fetal viability
Fetal viability: the gestational point, generally 23-24 weeks in current U.S. practice, at which a fetus can survive outside the uterus; shaped by corticosteroid therapy, NICU care, and legal thresholds from Roe to Dobbs.
Fetal Weight
Fetal weight (estimated fetal weight, EFW) is the prenatal ultrasound estimate of a fetus's weight, computed from biometry (HC, AC, FL, BPD) via regression formulas, chiefly Hadlock; typical accuracy ±10%, worse at extremes and in twins.
Fetava-yi Ebussuud Efendi
Fetava-yi Ebussuud Efendi is the body of fatwas of Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman sheyhulislam from 1545 to 1574, compiled by his scribes and students and forming the basis of Ottoman law.
Fetch (oceanography)
Fetch, in oceanography, is the area of open water over which wind blows in a roughly constant direction and generates waves, determining wave size alongside wind speed and duration.
Fetch Package
Fetch Package Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based last-mile logistics company that manages apartment packages off-site and delivers them to residents' doors, founded by Michael Patton in 2016 and rebranded in 2026.
Fetch Rewards
Fetch Rewards is a Madison, Wisconsin-based consumer rewards company founded by Wes Schroll whose free app lets users scan paper and electronic receipts to earn points redeemable from partner brands.
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is Fiona Apple's fifth studio album, released April 17, 2020 on Epic; recorded at home in Venice Beach with found percussion, it won two Grammys and near-universal acclaim.
Fetch-and-add
Fetch-and-add (FAA) is an atomic read-modify-write operation that adds a value to a memory location and returns the previous value, a synchronization primitive used for shared counters and ticket locks.
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman (FETCH!) is a PBS Kids Go! children's reality game show, WGBH-produced, hosted by animated dog Ruff Ruffman (Jim Conroy), running 100 episodes over five seasons from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010, ended for lack of funding, with spinoff The Ruff Ruffman Show.
Fête de la Musique
Fête de la Musique (Make Music Day): free street-music festival held every 21 June, created in 1982 by France's Ministry of Culture under Jack Lang, Maurice Fleuret, and Christian Dupavillon; now celebrated in about 120 countries.
Fêtes galantes
Fêtes galantes is an 1869 collection of 22 poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine, transposing Watteau's paintings of masked aristocrats and lovers into verse.
Fetha Nagast
The Fetha Nagast (ፍትሕ ነገሥት, "Law of the Kings") is a Ge'ez legal book used in Christian Ethiopia since the sixteenth century and formally adopted in 1908.
Fethullah Gülen
Fethullah Gülen, fully Muhammed Fethullah Gulen, was a Turkish Sunni preacher who founded the global Hizmet movement and lived in seclusion in Pennsylvania until his death in 2024.
Fetish fashion
Fetish fashion: dress style translating bondage and erotic codes (leather, latex, rubber, corsetry, straps, studs, chains) into clubwear and designer fashion; moved from 19th-century underground and gay leather scenes through punk, Westwood's Sex shop, Gaultier, Mugler and 1980s London clubs to the couture runway.
Fetish model
A fetish model poses in fetish clothing and accessories, presenting their body to reflect fetish aesthetics. This work is strongly sexual but does not require nudity.
Fetishism
Fetishism, also known as fetichism, is the worship of terrestrial material objects, a theory of religion coined by Charles de Brosses in 1760 from Portuguese feitiço.
Fetishization of LGBTQ people
Fetishization of LGBTQ people: treating sexual or gender identity as a sexual fantasy. Also called queer sexual objectification. Documented in media, dating apps, and history, mostly by cishet men, with negative mental-health impacts.
FetLife
FetLife, a social networking website for the BDSM, fetish, and kink community, was founded in 2008 by Canadian developer John Baku and has about 13 million members.
Fetoscopes
Fetoscopes (also amnioscopes, embryoscopes) are endoscopes for viewing the embryo, fetus, and amniotic cavity. Used since 1967 for diagnosis, revived in the 1990s for fetoscopic laser surgery of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and fetal tracheal occlusion.
Fetoscopy
Fetoscopy is a minimally invasive prenatal procedure in which a fiber-optic endoscope inserted through the mother's abdomen views and treats the fetus, chiefly for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
FETR-ALS trial
FETR-ALS (NCT03766321) was a four-center Italian randomized, sham-controlled proof-of-concept trial of fecal microbiota transplantation in 42 early-stage ALS patients; its Treg primary endpoint was not met, though slower ALSFRS-R decline was reported.
Fettas
Fettas is a Moroccan alignment board game with three concentric squares, eleven pieces per player, and captures by forming three in a row. Recorded from Moroccan immigrants in France (Bouhajbane 1989); DLP.Games.1544, distinct from Fetach and Felli.
Fette Compacting
Fette Compacting is a German manufacturer of rotary tablet presses for the pharmaceutical, nutrition, and chemical industries, headquartered in Schwarzenbek near Hamburg since its first tableting machine in 1948.
Fetterman Fight
The Fetterman Fight, also called the Fetterman massacre, was an 1866 battle near Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, where Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors killed 81 soldiers.
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo, or fettuccine all'Alfredo, is a Roman pasta dish of fettuccine, butter, and Parmesan created in 1908 by Alfredo Di Lelio; the American cream-based version differs, and the dish is far better known in the United States than in Italy.
Fetty Wap
Fetty Wap, born Willie Maxwell II in 1991, is an American rapper and singer from Paterson, New Jersey, who broke through in 2015 with "Trap Queen."
Fetty Wap (album)
Fetty Wap is the 2015 eponymous debut studio album by Fetty Wap (Willie Maxwell II), released by RGF Productions/300 Entertainment; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, spawned Trap Queen, 679, My Way and Again, and was certified 3x Platinum.
Fetu
Fetu, also written Efutu or Afutu, was a coastal kingdom on the Gold Coast of present-day Ghana whose capital lay inland, with Cape Coast as its trading town.
Fetu-ao Vallis
Fetu-ao Vallis (Fetu ao Vallis) is a 400 km-diameter valley on Venus at 61°S, 254.7°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named from the Samoan name for the planet Venus, mapped at 463 km minimum length.
Fetus
Fetus: the unborn human offspring from about 8 completed weeks after fertilization (roughly 10 weeks gestational age) until birth, marked by placental circulation, fetal shunts, movement, and prenatal monitoring.