How to Use placenta in a Sentence

placenta

noun

• 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 kind of clot that could lodge inside a placenta, or block the blood flow in the lungs of a man with cancer.
  — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• 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 decrease in blood flow to the uterus and placenta — used to feed the baby — can result in low birth weight.
  — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• The placenta could also detach from the wall of the uterus, causing the parent to bleed to death.
  — Kristin Myers, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
• Many of the artists who work with breast milk also create pieces from the placenta.
  — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
• There followed the second part of the labor, in which the placenta was expelled.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The placenta, the new organ that forms to nourish the fetus, presents new receptors for the disease to bind to.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Vox, 30 May 2024
• Odronic wondered if the virus could explain the damage to the placenta.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
• In the photo, Van Der Beek is sitting on the ground with his baby in his arms and a placenta placed in a mixing bowl in front of him.
  — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• Just as frightening is this: T. cruzi can cross the placenta.
  — Marc Burckhardt, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• 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
• This is because your heart is working harder to meet the needs of your placenta and organs.
  — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 May 2024
• 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
• Once the baby and placenta are delivered, both are stitched back up.
  — Kate Morgan, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Kevin was born without a left hand, the result of placenta knotting around his arm, the doctors told his mother.
  — Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Fetal mortality is closely tied to how much of the placenta becomes oxygen-deprived.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Vox, 30 May 2024
• Saccharin crosses the placenta and may be absorbed by the developing fetus.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024