placenta

In fetuses that developed normally, this part of the placenta remained healthy.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

They also found the mother’s placenta and umbilical cord in a trash bag, according to the sheriff’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I borrowed a razor blade to cut the placenta," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Doctors suspected she had a potentially fatal pregnancy complication called placenta percreta, where the placenta attaches itself and grows through the uterus.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Her placenta had weakened and she’d had a cesarean, though not quickly enough.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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

Yet when I call to mind the state of the placentae in A. luteola, I am astonished that they should produce ovules.

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