placenta

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"This finding also reinforces our commitment to developing antidepressants that do not reach the placenta -- a focus of many of our studies right now."

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

It's a rare and potentially life-threatening condition when twins share one placenta.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Late in her third trimester, doctors diagnosed her with placenta accreta, a potentially life-threatening condition in which the placenta grows too far into the wall of the uterus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 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

It turned out to be placenta, and washed off.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides