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Definition of Afterbirths
1. afterbirth [n] - See also: afterbirth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afterbirths
Literary usage of Afterbirths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1882)
"Prom the time on when the afterbirths of twins received more careful observation,
twins began to be classified as such as were nourished through one ..."
2. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1917)
"All abortions, premature births, retained afterbirths and sterility in dairy and
breeding cattle are and should be treated as symptoms of this contagious ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"... sentences embody two separate alternative provisions, that in the second to
be substituted for the one in the first in the contingency of afterbirths. ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"Dr Edmondson was of opinion that the placentae were separate in this case, and
that the cords were inserted in the usual position; but as the afterbirths ..."
5. Prof. H. Kling's Modern Orchestration and Instrumentation: Or, The Art of by Henri Kling (1905)
"... but now over thirty-years' enduring work, not one of the afterbirths of Weberian
Opera has had any real subsistence at the other Court theaters either. ..."
6. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1903)
"Undoubtedly the future investigation of the normal placenta will permit a more
perfect interpretation of the findings in pathologic afterbirths. ..."
7. The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567) by Jean Fernel (2003)
"But twins of different sex have received different afterbirths, totally separate
ones. Thus a difference in the places into which the semen separately ..."
8. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"... which, originating in the still fluid granite, deep down, was pressed into
the cracks of the already solidified granite above—afterbirths, as it were, ..."
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