What's the difference between afterbirth and placenta?

Afterbirth


Definition:

  • (n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author's own investigations of such alterations to afterbirths from high-risk pregnancies as well as to a consecutive series of newborns without increased risk have shown for either group that no statistical relationship existed between high-risk factors of asphyxia prior to or during labour, on the one hand, and such asphyxial infiltrates, on the other, not even in cases of prolonged labour.
  • (2) In the terminal crypts of the placentome in cross sections obtained from cows which expelled the placenta in time after natural and induced parturitions, the number of binuclear cells of the fetal syncytium and of cells of the dam epithelium (P less than 0.001) was found to be significantly lower than in the cases of afterbirth retention (1.2 and 3.9; 6.4 and 18.5).
  • (3) The frequency of retained placenta in animals with mastitis was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) than that in animals without mastitis influenced the loosening process of the afterbirth.
  • (4) New-born cynomolgus monkeys were sucessfully reared by artificial nursing that was started just afterbirth with a 12% solution of a commercially prepared powdered-milk (Yukijirushi, P 7a) containing 13.3g of protein per 100g.
  • (5) In a series of 29 experiments with extracorporeal perfusion of the fetal part of the placental from spontaneous labours after physiological pregnancy it was observed that the medicament given in one dose reduced the vascular resistance in the afterbirth.
  • (6) 49 babies were followed longtermly and the results were correlated partly with the risk factors partly with the duration of afterbirth CNS lesion symptoms.
  • (7) Both agents could be detected by microscopic investigation of smears from afterbirths by Giménez staining and by a capture enzyme-linked immunofluorescence assay (Capture ELIFA).
  • (8) It is shown that in 57.8% of cases mortinatality is associated with placental insufficiency, the reason for which can be found out by the pathoanatomical study of the afterbirth.
  • (9) The presence of the various categories of follicles (less than 0.05; 0.5-1.0; 1.0-1.5; less than 1.5 cm) in the ovaries was examined by palpation, endoscopically and post mortem in cows with a physiological puerperium (n = 5), with puerperal endometritis (n = 5), and with retention of afterbirth (RS, n = 5) from the second to the 20th day post partum (p.p.).
  • (10) However, pain resulting from internal structures, i.e., deep pain, afterbirth pain (due to uterine contractions), and the somatic pain associated with decreased peristalsis (gas pains) were not amenable to TENS.
  • (11) in cows with afterbirth retention (n = 5), with developing puerperal endometritis (n = 5), and with a physiological course of puerperium (n = 5).
  • (12) There was no significant increase of afterbirth complications following abruptio placentae and abortus, whereas there are partly statistically significant differences in the incidence of surgery reauired in children of normal weight of underweight.
  • (13) Practical problems (with possible medicolegal implications) regarding the interpretation of the completeness of the afterbirth are discussed.
  • (14) The present studies further tested the generalizability of the POEF effect: they examined sex specificity of the mechanism; whether POEF activity exists in afterbirth material of species other than the rat; whether POEF activity exists in tissue other than afterbirth material; whether POEF activity could be demonstrated after injection rather than ingestion of afterbirth material; and whether POEF enhances all opioid-mediated phenomena.
  • (15) Suspensions were prepared from the four samples of material, obtained either from the placentae and afterbirths of the aborting ewes or from the tissues of the aborted foetuses.
  • (16) 2176 vaginal deliveries at Jena University Hospital were selected at random to check whether in these patients it is possible to establish the connection postulated by some authors between preceding premature termination of pregnancy and the mass incidence of afterbirth haemorrhages, as well as of necessary surgery in the afterbirth phase.
  • (17) Membrane-associated proteins (MPs) of the human term placenta (afterbirth) were obtained by extracting the insoluble part of the tissue with solubilizing agents, after the soluble material had been removed by washing with saline.
  • (18) Two major consequences of placentophagia, the ingestion of afterbirth materials that occurs usually during mammalian parturition, have been uncovered in the past several years.
  • (19) Grewia bicolor is a small tree, parts of which are used in Sudanese traditional medicine for treating pustulent skin lesions, internally on indication of a delayed afterbirth and sometimes as a tranquilizer.
  • (20) In the group of newborns with leucocytic infiltrations present in the afterbirth, bacteraemia, left-shift of the differential white blood cell count, and decreased platelet count were more frequent.

Placenta


Definition:

  • (n.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
  • (n.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies, in addition to demonstrating that the placenta contains TRH deamidase activity, suggest that losses of fetal TRH through the placenta are not large.
  • (2) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
  • (3) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
  • (4) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
  • (5) GnRH has paracrine (local) effects in the gonads and placenta, acts as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, and has autocrine regulatory effects in some tumour cells.
  • (6) However, a history of abruptio placentae revealed an 11-fold risk of premature separation of placentae in subsequent pregnancy.
  • (7) In the first model, the kinetics of the number of bacteria in the spleen, liver, and placenta of mice inoculated intravenously on day 16 of pregnancy were monitored for 48 h after infection.
  • (8) This was either giant teratoma of placenta or malformed twin foetus.
  • (9) DNA of cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined in 131 placentae and 28 umbilical blood specimens by DNA-DNA hybridization.
  • (10) A stillborn girl, with external signs of trisomy 18 syndrome, was subsequently shown to have a mosaic pattern in both the lymphocytes and the placenta.
  • (11) The placenta was demonstrated to increase in thickness with advancing menstrual age.
  • (12) Glutathione S-transferase (GST) purified from Schistosoma mansoni or human placenta was inhibited by the antischistosomal drug oltipraz (OPZ) in a time- and concentration-dependent manner.
  • (13) We have found FLT4 expression in human placenta, lung, heart, and kidney, whereas the pancreas and brain appeared to contain very little if any FLT4 RNA.
  • (14) Based on morphological, virological, biochemical and molecular biological data, it is proposed that the presence of endogenous retrovirus particles in the placental cytotrophoblasts of many mammals is indicative of some beneficial action provided by the virus in relation to cell fusion, syncytiotrophoblast formation and the creation of the placenta.
  • (15) The levels of oestrogens and progesterone were greater (P less than 0.05) in the umbilical vein than umbilical artery, indicating the endocrine function of the placenta.
  • (16) In each rabbit, a single fetal sac was opened, the umbilical vessels were cannulated and the placenta was perfused in situ with buffered Krebs solution containing Dextran.
  • (17) Two similar, 41- and 67-kDa G-proteins were identified in the wheat germ-purified insulin receptor preparations obtained from human placenta.
  • (18) It was concluded that (i) free fatty acids can cross the rabbit placenta in amounts sufficient to provide the fatty acid components of stored triglyceride and structural lipids; (ii) placental transport of free fatty acids depends in part on maternal blood concentration and on foetal uptake; (iii) foetal circulating free fatty acids are continually exchanging with fatty acid pools in the placenta and with the maternal circulating free fatty acids.
  • (19) We postulate that the apposition of trophotaenial epithelium to the internal ovarian epithelium constitutes a placental association equivalent to a noninvasive, epithelioform of an inverted yolk sac placenta.
  • (20) These data suggest that fasting mobilizes maternal fuel stores but that these stores are not effectively used by the placenta or transported to the fetus for storage.

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