English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

in vitro fertilisation: process that fertilises a woman’s egg in a laboratory; babies 
born this way are sometimes referred to as 
test tube babies
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what the embryo developing in the uterus 
is known as from eight weeks onward
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organ connecting the developing baby to the mother and giving it 
food
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goes into the last stage of pregnancy, where the womb starts the process of pushing the baby out of 
the body
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be helped medically to start the process 
of labour (noun = 
induction)
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have her baby
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person medically trained to help women when 
they are giving birth
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help the mother to give birth 
(noun = 
delivery)
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operation in which the mother’s 
abdomen and womb are cut open to allow the baby to 
be removed
At the end
More and more people these days are living to a 
ripe old age
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. My aunt, for example, that’s 
my 
late
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father’s sister, is 93. She’s been a 
pensioner
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for more years than she worked. She 
lives in 
sheltered accommodation
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but she’s not at all 
doddery
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or 
gaga
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. She’s lucky still to 
have all her wits about her
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because a lot of elderly people develop 
dementia
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. Funerals are 
changing a lot too. I went to one recently where there was a 
coffin
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in the colours of the dead 
man’s football team. And at the 
wake,
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his sister told me she’d put it in her 
will
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that her own 
ashes
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are to be sent up in a rocket! Funerals now are often more about celebrating a person’s 
life rather than just about