T he ability to assess the fetus by ausculta-. tion of the fetal heart was initially de-. scribed more than 300 years ago. With the. advent of the fetoscope and stethoscope. after the turn of the twentieth century, the listener could hear. clearly enough to count the fetal heart rate (FHR). When.
noun. verb. The definition of a skirmish is a short argument or brief period of fighting. When two people have a brief argument, this is an example of a skirmish. Skirmish is to get involved in a short little argument or fight.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context. I was worn out by two days and a night of hard railway travel and had not entirely recovered from a gunshot wound in the head, received in an altercation.A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed: argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, word (used in plural), wrangle. Informal: hassle, rhubarb, tangle.Y dear sir, said the editor to the man, who had called to see about his poem, I regret to say that owing to an unfortunate altercation in this office the greater part of your manuscript is illegible; a bottle of ink was upset upon it, blotting out all but the first line-that is to say - .