placenta

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 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

Baby Alissa suffered severe brain damage due to a lack of oxygen caused by the placenta coming away from the womb wall.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 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

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

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

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

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

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

They’ve been found in human organs and tissue, such as brains, livers, placentas and testicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026

She was carrying an unknown number of human placentas in a plastic bag when she was picked up, according to the police.

From BBC ● Sep. 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