birth canal
Americannoun
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Higdon once had to pull a calf from the birth canal of its mother during a complex delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
And the reason is that if you’re not, you have an 85 percent chance of getting hepatitis B, passing through a birth canal that has the virus in it.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2025
This was thought to be the result of an evolutionary compromise so babies' heads could fit through their mother's birth canal, which would require them to further develop outside of the womb.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The baby was not able to be delivered vaginally due to shoulder dystocia, where the baby's shoulders become stuck in the birth canal.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023
Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mothers birth canal and we howl.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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