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How to use the word Placenta in a Sentence?

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Humans, like all placental mammals, run the risk of bleeding to death after that placenta separates off the wall of the uterus, so 4.5 million years of evolution is at our backs, helping us clot a little bit more effectively when we're pregnant.

Kjersti Aagaard

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don't want to draw sweeping conclusions from a small study, but this preliminary glimpse into how Covid-19 might cause changes in the placenta carries some pretty significant implications for the health of a pregnancy, we must discuss whether we should change how we monitor pregnant women right now.

Emily Miller

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Right after delivery, the placenta usually then comes out. Kim Kardashian did not, my placenta stayed attached inside my uterus, which is a condition called placenta accreta. This is a high-risk condition that happens when the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall.

Kim Kardashian

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We know there is a potential for anything pregnant women eat or drink to cross the placenta and have an effect on their baby’s health.

Cara Christ

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've been investigating the placenta for the last decade and we have discovered that the placenta cells have unique properties that can help the body to recover after exposure to high level of radiation, we are injecting these cells to the bodies' muscles...that will help the bone marrow to recover after radiation.

Lukasiewicz Hagai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Once in someone's body, it can take decades to eliminate it, dDT also crosses the placenta and is found in breast milk, so developing fetuses and children will be exposed if their mothers are exposed.

Jonathan Chevrier

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's rapidly absorbed and crosses the placenta.

Denis Viljoen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We don't know yet if this virus crosses the placenta and generates or causes microcephaly. We think it plays a role. There's no doubt about that.

Marcos Espinal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The other two were miscarriages, in both we found evidence of Zika in the placenta. In addition, Brazil has looked at a number of babies as well and found Zika in the amniotic fluid of two women whose fetuses had evidence of microcephaly via sonogram.

Lyle Petersen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For decades, scientists have been searching for similarities between the growth of a placenta and a tumor, the placenta is an organ, which within a few months grows from only few cells into an organ weighing [approximately] 2 pounds, and it provides the embryo with oxygen and nourishment in a relatively foreign environment. In a manner of speaking, tumors do much the same— they grow aggressively in a relatively foreign environment.

Ali Salanti

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When it comes to labor management practices, we need to find a better way of testing for the cord blood gases as well as getting billions of stem cells out of the cord and placenta after the baby has had its physiological transition and a normal blood volume, we're getting closer to finding a solution but we're just not there yet.

David Hutchon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The sooner you deliver the placenta, the sooner the uterus will clamp down and there will be less of a concern.

Sheryl Ross

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The infant will receive about half the iron and stem cell-rich blood that was left in the placenta.

Jenna LoGiudice

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

John Berger

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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