afterbirth
Example Sentences
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“It was years later,” says Reed-Allen now living in Urbana, Md., “when I realized afterbirth had been left inside me and that I could have died.”
From Washington Post
They kept the exhausted Letay awake because of their belief that otherwise the afterbirth would fall back into her.
From Seattle Times
Even more than that, if he’s going around clicking these miserable lumps of hairy afterbirth out of existence, then he might actually qualify as the protagonist of Cats.
From The Guardian
The placenta may be dismissed as “afterbirth,” deemed an afterthought in discussions about pregnancy and even relegated, literally, to the trash bin.
From New York Times
Farmers also are encouraged to remove calf afterbirth quickly since black vultures are attracted to it.
From Washington Times
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