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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
- Calves birthed in big blue placentas with veins thick as your finger.† (source)
- I still had the placenta to push out.† (source)
- Rosaura required surgery not because John lacked experience, but because he had no other way to loosen the placenta.† (source)
- 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)
- The trash squishes beneath their feet, moistened by loads from hospitals, full of blood and placentas.† (source)
- It was quickly determined that her placenta had torn away from the uterine wall; it's called "placenta abrupta."† (source)
- 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)
- I waited for the placenta.† (source)
- "We have to remove the placenta," he said.† (source)
- Catch the blood and add water to dilute it, and look at the clots and tissue to make sure the placenta has passed.† (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)
- The placenta must have detached!† (source)
- The placenta still has to come out.† (source)
- When she landed, the placenta tore away from the baby.† (source)
- "Nursing stimulates the uterus, triggering it to expel the placenta," Mortenson says.† (source)
- Minus placenta, water, etcetera, that leaves about twenty pounds of belly flab, jelly thighs, and chipmunk cheeks I need to lose before feeling positive about how I look again.† (source)
- In our county we are proud of our spicy food, but I was not permitted to eat anything seasoned with garlic, chilies, or pepper, which could delay the delivery of my placenta.† (source)
- Placenta previa—a placenta plastered over the exit to the womb—was another possibility.† (source)
- Only a small part of the placenta was attached, but it was just enough to keep your baby nourished all these months.† (source)
- In another display there's a jar of twins, real dead identical human twins with their placenta attached, gray-skinned, floating in something that looks like dishwater.† (source)
- And so the Gestapo goon, pressing Sophie up against a damp brick wall, made no effort to conceal his contempt for her doltish Polack dodge, extracting a penknife from the pocket of his jacket and inserting the blade with relaxed, almost informal delicacy into that bulgingly bogus placenta, leering as he did so.† (source)
- Once I had the placenta, I said, "I need something to clip the umbilical cord.† (source)
- The wood of the walls reeked with birth odors: blood, placenta, milk, sweat.† (source)
- That's when doctors realized Jai's placenta wasn't operating efficiently.† (source)
- With the placenta in such distress, the life support for the fetus was giving out.† (source)
- "Her placenta hadn't come out after the birth and she was in danger of dying from septic shock.† (source)
- Detached placenta—I knew what that meant.† (source)
- He gave us the option of waiting over the weekend and returning on Monday for the procedure, which was the same as an abortion, with the fetus and placenta being vacuumed from the uterus.† (source)
- It is so firmly attached that if an inexperienced person tried to help the mother and pulled on the placenta by yanking the umbilical cord, the whole uterus would come with it.† (source)
- John had explained to Tita that sometimes, because of abnormalities, the placenta does not just implant in the uterus, it sends roots down into it, so that when the baby is born, the placenta does not detach.† (source)
- "Forget about the payment," she said, and she pulled out the placenta right there in the backseat before opening the gate and allowing him to go.† (source)
- She had given birth a few days before, but there had been no afterbirth; the placenta wouldn't budge.† (source)
- While Ibrahim held a kerosene lantern, Mortenson washed his hands with a kettle of hot water, then reached into Rhokia's uterus and pulled the decomposing placenta out.† (source)
- The placenta must have detached!† (source)
- But then he realized that his fear was absurd because congenital syphilis had to come through the placenta to him, it had to come from his mother.† (source)
- The covered bowl he carried held the injera and wot, and their scent was added to that of placenta, blood, amniotic fluid, and meconium.† (source)
- Gebrew, instrument of God, had inadvertently stepped on the trailing umbilical cord, causing the placenta to break free.† (source)
- Until, that is, the day when my brother and I announced our presence in her womb and our unstoppable desire to trade the nourishment of the placenta for the succor of her breasts.† (source)
- AT LONG LAST he looked up, seeing as if for the first time the green tile going halfway up the wall, the swinging green door to the autoclave room, the glass instrument case, the bloody uterus with its necklace of hemostats lying in the green towel, the blue-black placenta right next to it on the specimen table, and the jade-colored ground-glass windows through which sunlight filtered.† (source)
- 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)
- But, to return to the legend: The probationer unloaded the two stillborns into a copper basin used to hold placentas.† (source)
- 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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