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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of these antibodies prevent folic acid’s passage across the placenta and from the blood to the brain.
  — Nicholette Zeliadt, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• 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 placenta produces Hemo, and so do cells in the early embryo itself.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Since his placenta study, Campen has found that microplastic is in human testicles and, detailed in a paper that has yet to be published, in human brains.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024