afterbirth

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When the ambulance arrived medical workers assisted Nahil with the rest of her delivery, ensuring the afterbirth was removed and her own health stable.

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  1. noun The placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus following birth.

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  • No operating manual accompanies the afterbirth, yet somehow, sometimes, natural-born humans do manage to stumble across one of the Answers To It All. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 01 - July 1994
  • Only waste from a horse's birth is afterbirth, which recycles.
  • A sucker is born every minute, and this critic can usually be found drowning in afterbirth. —  Latest News
  • When she was born, they threw away the baby and kept the afterbirth. —  Latest Articles
  • When the ambulance arrived medical workers assisted Nahil with the rest of her delivery, ensuring the afterbirth was removed and her own health stable. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
 

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/ˈæftərbərθ/
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