How to Use placenta in a Sentence

placenta

noun
Definition of placentanext
  • There is no need to touch or pull the placenta to help it out.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
  • This isn't the first time that Lowry has drank her placenta.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • As the mother barked at them, the birds rushed in to eat the placenta, staining their beaks red.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The kind of clot that could lodge inside a placenta, or block the blood flow in the lungs of a man with cancer.
    — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The virus may also pass to a fetus through the placenta.
    — Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Females gave birth to their pups on the beach, leaving their placentas in the sand.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The decrease in blood flow to the uterus and placenta — used to feed the baby — can result in low birth weight.
    — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • The placenta could also detach from the wall of the uterus, causing the parent to bleed to death.
    — Kristin Myers, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • Many of the artists who work with breast milk also create pieces from the placenta.
    — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
  • But once the baby is out, the placenta is no longer needed.
    — Mindy Weisberger Senior Writer, Fox News, 2 June 2017
  • The placenta of a pepper, often referred to as the pith, is where the capsaicin glands are found.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2024
  • There followed the second part of the labor, in which the placenta was expelled.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The doctor used it to extract the placenta, a pulsing red mass, then waved smelling salts near my face.
    — Jessica Zucker, The Cut, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Those cells could then spread through the placenta into the other twin, even if his genes were free from the error.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • The next day, doctors used a long, painful needle to retrieve a small piece of her placenta.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The team found evidence of the virus in both mothers’ placentas.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The umbilical cord was clamped twice and cut away from the placenta.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • But the placenta breaks these rules, according to the new research.
    — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The placenta, the new organ that forms to nourish the fetus, presents new receptors for the disease to bind to.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Vox, 30 May 2024
  • Odronic wondered if the virus could explain the damage to the placenta.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Some of these antibodies prevent folic acid’s passage across the placenta and from the blood to the brain.
    — Nicholette Zeliadt, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In the photo, Van Der Beek is sitting on the ground with his baby in his arms and a placenta placed in a mixing bowl in front of him.
    — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • Just as frightening is this: T. cruzi can cross the placenta.
    — Marc Burckhardt, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Researchers are looking at the best way to measure the health, blood flow and size of the placenta, but studies are still in their early stages.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • This is because your heart is working harder to meet the needs of your placenta and organs.
    — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 May 2024
  • Pregnant people can also spread the virus to a fetus through the placenta.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2022
  • The placenta produces Hemo, and so do cells in the early embryo itself.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The ties help keep the baby from losing blood on one end and keep the placenta from bleeding everywhere on the other.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Some passengers shed tears, some crouched to take photos of the scene, and others kept an eye on the hawks starting to circle the placenta.
    — Josh Rivera, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Zinc aids in the development of the embryo, fetus, and placenta.
    — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024

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