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
  • Many of the artists who work with breast milk also create pieces from the placenta.
    — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Females gave birth to their pups on the beach, leaving their placentas in the sand.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Know that your placenta should not come out in multiple pieces.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 10 May 2022
  • 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 cells on the outside form the placenta; the cells on the inside form the embryo.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • When the baby was placed in the box, she was wrapped in a blanket with the placenta still attached.
    — Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The umbilical cord was clamped twice and cut away from the placenta.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The next day, doctors used a long, painful needle to retrieve a small piece of her placenta.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Once the baby and placenta are delivered, both are stitched back up.
    — Kate Morgan, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Plastics are in our bodies from the placenta until the grave.
    — Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • The doctor used it to extract the placenta, a pulsing red mass, then waved smelling salts near my face.
    — Jessica Zucker, The Cut, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The team found evidence of the virus in both mothers’ placentas.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Apr. 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
  • Those cells could then spread through the placenta into the other twin, even if his genes were free from the error.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • But the placenta breaks these rules, according to the new research.
    — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The source of the sound was a newborn kitten, still attached to its placenta, which was dried and stuck to a rock.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This is because your heart is working harder to meet the needs of your placenta and organs.
    — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 May 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
  • The placenta of a pepper, often referred to as the pith, is where the capsaicin glands are found.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2024
  • There followed the second part of the labor, in which the placenta was expelled.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Pregnant people can also spread the virus to a fetus through the placenta.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2022
  • Emily and Mindy have a slumber party and do placenta face masks.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Since there was only one placenta for the triplets, Toney had a high-risk pregnancy.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • The baby had been wrapped in a blanket, and the placenta was still attached, Kelsey said.
    — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Odronic wondered if the virus could explain the damage to the placenta.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • He was wrapped in a blanket inside a plastic bag and even had his placenta still attached, the outlet notes.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 26 June 2025
  • Deputies found the placenta buried under about 4 inches of dirt, wrapped in a medical pad.
    — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Mono-mono twins have four times the risk of low birth weight as compared to pregnancies in which each fetus has a placenta of its own.
    — Pamela Prindle Fierro, Parents, 30 July 2024

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