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 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 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
  • Odronic wondered if the virus could explain the damage to the placenta.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Pregnant people can also spread the virus to a fetus through the placenta.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2022
  • The antibodies from the vaccine have been shown to transfer through the placenta.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The sheriff’s office said that the child had been born about an hour before she was found and had been wrapped in a blanket that was still attached to the placenta.
    — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Know that your placenta should not come out in multiple pieces.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 10 May 2022
  • Bonell knew that heat stress can trigger the release of cortisol, which could hinder blood flow to the placenta.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Cord blood is found in the umbilical cord and placenta.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Experts say the coronavirus's spike protein is not the same protein that helps form the placenta in a woman’s body.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • They are pulled from the tissue that will eventually form the placenta and not the fetus itself.
    — Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
  • And the one thing that every single person who has preeclampsia has in common is a placenta.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The placenta was like a wall of pressure, and the babies' hearts were pumping against it, Mastrolia explained.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • An infection in the fetus, the placenta or the pregnant person.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • The five-day-old embryo is surrounded by an outer layer of cells that will soon become the placenta.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • It is theorized the virus, while weakened and less virulent, could be passed on to the fetus through the placenta and cause infection.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Studies show parental antibodies can travel through the placenta to the baby and via breast milk.
    — al, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The placenta is an organ that forms and attaches to the womb during pregnancy.
    — Lindsey Tanner, ajc, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The placenta can stop most viruses from infecting the fetus.
    — Sara Reardon Reprints, STAT, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The ultrasound showed blood pumping from Baby A back to the placenta, but in the pause between each pump, some flowed backward, like a tide receding.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The placenta is a sponge of blood vessels that enables the exchange of oxygen and nutrients between the mother and fetus.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Normal placenta tissue is a healthy reddish hue and spongy.
    — Lindsey Tanner, ajc, 10 Feb. 2022

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