How to Use amniotic sac in a Sentence

amniotic sac

noun

• En caul is the term used when a baby is born inside the still-intact amniotic sac.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• The amniotic sac had been exposed, and there was a serious risk of infection to the mother and the fetus.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
• These sensors are inserted through the uterus and reside in the amniotic sac.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2018
• ZaNiyah slid onto planet Earth still encased in the amniotic sac — and without a pulse.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• Each twin has his or her own placenta and amniotic sac.
  — Beth Reese Cravey, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• With an amniotic sac birth being so uncommon, one in a car must be even rarer.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• The doctor explained to them that the babies were in the same amniotic sac which is a very rare type of twins and fraught with potential complications for the pregnancy.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2021
• Known as a porcupette (read more about the names for baby animals), the baby is born with all its quills but also wrapped in the amniotic sac that smooths the little one’s arrival.
  — Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 2 July 2020
• And that's not to mention the baby in the portable amniotic sac, which also apparently lives inside Reedus' throat and gives a thumbs up at one point.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2017
• When Griffin was in his mother's womb with his twin brother, Seahawks cornerback Shaquil, the amniotic sac wrapped around Shaquem's wrist.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Her amniotic sac wasn’t properly fused, and the doctors worried that a needle might tent the membrane without pushing through, or that there might be a rupture.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
• At the foot of his deathbed, another monolith looms over his decrepit body, and he is transformed into a fetus in an amniotic sac, hovering over the Earth with his eyes wide open.
  — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• The amniotic sac and the fluid inside it cushion and shield the baby during pregnancy, according to Time.
  — Health.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• During this procedure, a healthcare provider will manually sweep their finger between the membranes that connect the amniotic sac to the wall of the uterus.
  — Jessica Migala, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• The fetus would not be viable outside the womb, and without the protection of the amniotic sac, the woman was vulnerable to an infection that could threaten her life.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Doctors determined that her amniotic sac had ruptured; the fetus would not survive outside the womb.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• The syndrome is rare; strands of the amniotic sac separate and entangle digits, limbs, or other parts of the developing fetus.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
• By injecting the missing protein into the amniotic sac at the right time in the fetuses’ development, the doctors restored the trio’s ability to sweat.
  — Jessica McDonald, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
• Any time the amniotic sac breaks before labor starts, it's called prelabor or premature rupture of membranes, but when the sac breaks before the 37th week of pregnancy, it's considered preterm.
  — Susan Szuch, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2022
• For example, in rare cases an infection can make the amniotic sac rupture before the fetus is viable.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• As monoamniotic twins, their girls, Lynlee and Lydia, are identical or semi-identical twins who shared the same amniotic sac within their mother’s uterus.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 24 Feb. 2023
• Her algorithm is based on gestational age; maternal risk factors, such as when the amniotic sac ruptured; and the infant's clinical exam.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Science | AAAS, 5 Apr. 2018
• MacKenzie and her colleagues recruited 89 women with healthy pregnancies and 70 who went into preterm labor because of an early rupture of the amniotic sac—a condition known as preterm premature rupture of membranes.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
• Mary suspects that, during a pregnancy exam, a technician punctured her amniotic sac.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The family's newest member was unexpectedly delivered inside her amniotic sac, which inspired her unique name.
  — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
• Other possibilities, the hospital said, include constriction ring syndrome -- when fibers from the amniotic sac wrap themselves around a fetus, causing deformities -- or the umbilical cord becoming wrapped around a fetus' limbs.
  — Matthew Robinson, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• Currently, determining a fetus's genome requires either amniocentesis, in which a needle is inserted through the mother's abdomen into the amniotic sac, or chorionic villus sampling, in which a piece of placenta is removed.
  — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2010
• The amniotic sac usually ruptures during labor or delivery.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024