placenta

Example Sentences

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"They've given me the medicines and insulin I need for the health of baby and the placenta."

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

They have already been detected in breast milk and in the placenta -- and even in the brain.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

As tradition dictated, her placenta was hurled into the Huangpu River; when it floated away, it was deemed that she too “would be raised and fed, only to drift away.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

The only exposure of the infant mice to urethane was prenatal in these experiments, proving that the chemical must have passed through the placenta.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson