placenta
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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
"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
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
In experimental animals the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides freely cross the barrier of the placenta, the traditional protective shield between the embryo and harmful substances in the mother’s body.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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