How to Use birth canal in a Sentence

birth canal

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  • The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • When the doe goes into labor, the VIT ejects out of the birth canal and onto the ground.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The baby could grow too large to pass safely through the birth canal.
    — Nancy Gottesman, Parents, 14 July 2023
  • Indeed, the rescuers could see the baby's head in the birth canal.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
  • The head was tucked against the body instead of pointing down into the birth canal.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • That can mean the baby gets stuck in the birth canal, which could lead to injury or even death.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The feathered breasts of Pittman’s owls sport gaping birth canals.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • This prepares your body for the baby's passage through the birth canal.
    — Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The baby slowly moved down the mannequin’s birth canal.
    — Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • What might have happened if her baby, like mine, had been facing the wrong way in the birth canal?
    — Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The concern is that the baby would get stuck in the birth canal during delivery.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The direction the baby is facing inside the birth canal plays a role, too.
    — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
  • The umbilical cord attached to Twin A, the girl they’d named Maia, had slipped out of the uterus and into the birth canal.
    — Eva Holland, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The obstetrician lifted the newborn free of the birth canal.
    — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020
  • If that occurs, most of the time the cervix will stop dilating and the baby will not descend into the birth canal.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • When a baby passes through its mother’s birth canal, it is bathed in a soup of microbes.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The ideal position for a fetus to be in before birth is head down; that makes for the smoothest sailing through the birth canal.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Riding in Dave’s pod is like travelling through a birth canal in which someone has thrown a rave.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Hippos are known to have about a 12-hour labor, Africa head keeper Wendy Rice said, with two to three hours during which the calf is in the birth canal.
    — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But as the labor continued, the second kitten was in breech position and stuck in the birth canal.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And the process of passing through the birth canal tends to compress babies’ skulls into a slightly elongated, cone-like shape.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Scientists think this has to do with microbes: a baby acquires them from its mother on its way through the birth canal.
    — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
  • Researchers know that infants acquire about 100 species of microbes in the birth canal, and others come from the mother’s skin after birth.
    — Michael Tennesen, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2011
  • The rabbit hole that transports Alice to Wonderland might as well be a birth canal concealed within the vast corpus of the earth.
    — Longreads, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Caesarian sections make the healthy birth of babies too large to make it through the birth canal possible.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Baby opossums, which are born the size of an ant, somehow manage to travel from the birth canal into their mother’s pouch.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • The soft spots exist so your baby can safely negotiate the narrow birth canal and allow for brain and skull growth in the first year.
    — Denise Schipani, Parents, 22 June 2023
  • Some come through the birth canal, some have to be surgically cut out of their mothers' stomachs, but all of them are covered in blood and viscera.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Unlike those born headfirst, a breech baby has higher odds of getting its head stuck in the birth canal during labor.
    — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Testimony and an autopsy confirmed that the fetus died in utero before passing through the birth canal.
    — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023

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