placentas
- plural of placenta.
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The examples included an NPR story on eating human placentas, a practice that has been around for decades, and a 2017 documentary about a transgender teen on PBS.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
After their vital role in growing a baby, placentas are usually thrown away.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
As we look across the mammal groups, big-brained species correlate frequently with invasive placentas, like our own.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
While the advanced pathology residents were working on cancer, Kliman said newer residents started in the basement morgue performing autopsies on placentas and fetuses.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
In 2006, some seven hundred new mothers found out that doctors had taken their placentas without consent to test for abnormalities that might help the hospital defend itself against future lawsuits over birth defects.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
