birth canal

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noun

the passage through which the young of mammals pass during birth, formed by the cervix, vagina, and vulva.

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How to use birth canal in a sentence

When babies came out feet-first or their bodies were otherwise trapped in the birth canal, doctors would have to widen the pelvic area by cutting into the cartilage and bone.
Why were chainsaws invented? To help with childbirth.|empire|July 18, 2021|Popular-Science
Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Her focus would be on the three months, January through March 1965, that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Nothing much to use in cleaning up the baby and his mother after the birth, no place to dispose of the placenta.
Jesus Wasn’t Born Rich. Think About It.|Gene Robinson|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A native of Haarlem on Zandam, the date of her birth being unknown.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Though by birth duke of St. Cloud, he preferred the ecclesiastical state to political distinction.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Two or three more infant deaths intervened before the birth of Marcella.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
But that is past; and I feel, that could birth give dignity, my ancestors of Nassau reigned in this very palace!
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
This is an instance of Inclusion as to the men, of Exclusion and Concurrence as to date of birth and death.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

Medical definitions for birth canal

birth canal

The passage through which the fetus is expelled during parturition, leading from the uterus through the cervix, vagina, and vulva.parturient canal