Sample Sentences forplacenta (auto-selected)
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To screen for birth defects, she had amniocentesis -- a medical procedure in which a doctor inserts a long needle through the belly and into the placenta to withdraw amniotic fluid.placenta = an organ attached to the wall of the uterus to nourish the fetus during pregnancy
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When she landed, the placenta tore away from the baby.† (source)
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I waited for the placenta.† (source)
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Rosaura required surgery not because John lacked experience, but because he had no other way to loosen the placenta.† (source)
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Here's what happened: Nick got home just after four, a bulb of beer and cigarettes and fried-egg odor attached to him, a placenta of stink.† (source)
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Described the artificial maternal circulation installed in every bottle at Metre 112; showed them the reservoir of blood-surrogate, the centrifugal pump that kept the liquid moving over the placenta and drove it through the synthetic lung and waste product filter.† (source)
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The wood of the walls reeked with birth odors: blood, placenta, milk, sweat.† (source)
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In 2006, some seven hundred new mothers found out that doctors had taken their placentas without consent to test for abnormalities that might help the hospital defend itself against future lawsuits over birth defects.† (source)
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Placenta previa—a placenta plastered over the exit to the womb—was another possibility.† (source)
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The trash squishes beneath their feet, moistened by loads from hospitals, full of blood and placentas.† (source)
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Detached placenta—I knew what that meant.† (source)
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The doctor was by then intent on delivering the placentas, which came out beautifully, dark and thick, each the size of a small plate.† (source)
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With the placenta in such distress, the life support for the fetus was giving out.† (source)
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Calves birthed in big blue placentas with veins thick as your finger.† (source)
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I still had the placenta to push out.† (source)
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But the teapot sat next to a Bunsen burner, and the freezers were filled with blood, placentas, tumor samples, and dead mice (plus at least one duck Gey kept frozen in the lab for more than twenty years after a hunting trip, since it wouldn't fit in his freezer at home).† (source)
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