How to Use birth canal in a Sentence

birth canal

noun

• The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
  — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• When the doe goes into labor, the VIT ejects out of the birth canal and onto the ground.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
• The baby could grow too large to pass safely through the birth canal.
  — Nancy Gottesman, Parents, 14 July 2023
• Indeed, the rescuers could see the baby's head in the birth canal.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• The head was tucked against the body instead of pointing down into the birth canal.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• That can mean the baby gets stuck in the birth canal, which could lead to injury or even death.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The feathered breasts of Pittman’s owls sport gaping birth canals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• The baby slowly moved down the mannequin’s birth canal.
  — Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• What might have happened if her baby, like mine, had been facing the wrong way in the birth canal?
  — Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
• The concern is that the baby would get stuck in the birth canal during delivery.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• The direction the baby is facing inside the birth canal plays a role, too.
  — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
• The umbilical cord attached to Twin A, the girl they’d named Maia, had slipped out of the uterus and into the birth canal.
  — Eva Holland, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• The obstetrician lifted the newborn free of the birth canal.
  — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020
• If that occurs, most of the time the cervix will stop dilating and the baby will not descend into the birth canal.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• When a baby passes through its mother’s birth canal, it is bathed in a soup of microbes.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2019
• The ideal position for a fetus to be in before birth is head down; that makes for the smoothest sailing through the birth canal.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Riding in Dave’s pod is like travelling through a birth canal in which someone has thrown a rave.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Hippos are known to have about a 12-hour labor, Africa head keeper Wendy Rice said, with two to three hours during which the calf is in the birth canal.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2022
• But as the labor continued, the second kitten was in breech position and stuck in the birth canal.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
• And the process of passing through the birth canal tends to compress babies’ skulls into a slightly elongated, cone-like shape.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• Scientists think this has to do with microbes: a baby acquires them from its mother on its way through the birth canal.
  — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
• Researchers know that infants acquire about 100 species of microbes in the birth canal, and others come from the mother’s skin after birth.
  — Michael Tennesen, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2011
• The rabbit hole that transports Alice to Wonderland might as well be a birth canal concealed within the vast corpus of the earth.
  — Longreads, 27 Mar. 2020
• Caesarian sections make the healthy birth of babies too large to make it through the birth canal possible.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
• Baby opossums, which are born the size of an ant, somehow manage to travel from the birth canal into their mother’s pouch.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
• The soft spots exist so your baby can safely negotiate the narrow birth canal and allow for brain and skull growth in the first year.
  — Denise Schipani, Parents, 22 June 2023
• Some come through the birth canal, some have to be surgically cut out of their mothers' stomachs, but all of them are covered in blood and viscera.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Unlike those born headfirst, a breech baby has higher odds of getting its head stuck in the birth canal during labor.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• The act of squeezing through a woman’s birth canal can compress a stillborn baby’s chest cavity and lungs, and once the baby is out of the canal, the lungs expand and can take in air, Davis said.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 12 June 2022
• Testimony and an autopsy confirmed that the fetus died in utero before passing through the birth canal.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024