placenta
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"I borrowed a razor blade to cut the placenta," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
She lay flat as a specially-designed machine fired high-powered ultrasound waves at tiny blood vessels in her placenta.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta, and breast milk contains only small amounts.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
Previous research has detected microplastics in nearly every organ, as well as in bodily fluids and even the placenta.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
In experimental animals the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides freely cross the barrier of the placenta, the traditional protective shield between the embryo and harmful substances in the mother’s body.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Two placentae were expelled some time after the twins, and showed a membranous junction.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
After parturition, placentae and bloody discharge often are in evidence in the vaginal canal.
From Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) by Henry S. Fitch
One point makes the above view more probable in Acropera than in other cases, viz. the presence of rudimentary placentae or testae, for I cannot hear that these have been observed in the male plants.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
As I traced the placentae upwards, the ovules appeared, becoming gradually more abundant towards its apex.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
In making longitudinal sections of the fertilised ovary before mentioned, I found the basal portion entirely destitute of ovules, their place being substituted by transparent cellular ramification of the placentae.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
The examples included an NPR story on eating human placentas, a practice that has been around for decades, and a 2017 documentary about a transgender teen on PBS.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
After their vital role in growing a baby, placentas are usually thrown away.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
Yes, even though your own placenta did not live very long, placentas, as a group, are some of the real stars of life on Earth today.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
While the advanced pathology residents were working on cancer, Kliman said newer residents started in the basement morgue performing autopsies on placentas and fetuses.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
In 2006, some seven hundred new mothers found out that doctors had taken their placentas without consent to test for abnormalities that might help the hospital defend itself against future lawsuits over birth defects.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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