afterbirth
IPA: ˈæftɝbɝθ
noun
- The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.
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Examples of "afterbirth" in Sentences
- They eat the afterbirth such as placenta.
- They do eat every scrap of the afterbirth.
- I think the 'eating afterbirth' section needs ref.
- A doctor discovers that in the blood is afterbirth.
- The afterbirth is then tied up and buried in hot ashes.
- Then the afterbirth is tied up and digged into hot ashes.
- In this stage, the uterus expels the placenta afterbirth .
- The discarded spacesuit emerges after birth as the afterbirth.
- One of the holes was for heating water and the other for the afterbirth.
- The afterbirth follows later, and if it doesn't, it's a job for the doctor.
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