Crossword clues for afterbirth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afterbirth \Aft"er*birth`\, n. (Med.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.
WordNet
n. the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born
Wikipedia
"Afterbirth" is the twelfth episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story and the season finale, which premiered on FX on December 21, 2011. The episode was written by Jessica Sharzer and directed by Bradley Buecker. Due to a very aggressive production schedule it was previously announced that the show's first season would be cut short. This was the last episode to feature the Harmons. Murphy announced that a new cast will return for the second season.
In the aftermath of family tragedy, Ben ( Dylan McDermott) tries to take his child out of the Murder House. Meanwhile, Violet ( Taissa Farmiga) and Vivien ( Connie Britton) accustom themselves to their new living arrangements, Constance ( Jessica Lange) raises Tate's child as her own and a new family buys the house. Kate Mara and Charles S. Dutton guest star as Hayden McClaine and Detective Granger.
The episode was well received by the majority of television critics and viewership and ratings for the episode reached a season high with 3.22 million. It garnered a 1.7 rating in the 18–49 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
Usage examples of "afterbirth".
Blood, jiz, afterbirth, a human heart maybe, and she was scraping it off that board as if it were dried bean paste.
Wickenburg tied off the cord and cut it, then quickly cleaned the baby and gave her to Rafe to hold while the afterbirth came and she took care of Annie.
The afterbirth dangled from her rump like a cluster of grape Popsicles.
Fausta as the other women bustled around her, cutting the cord and helping her to deliver the afterbirth while the maids washed and swaddled the child.
Agatha bathed the babe while Galswinthe and Elspeth helped to rid Aelveva of the afterbirth, then cleansed her.
I have to make sure the fundus is well contracted and check that the afterbirth is complete.
The afterbirth slipped into the basin Mamo held for it, and it was then that Mamo began to pray.
Having cleaned her offspring, bitten through the umbilicals, and eaten the afterbirths, consumption of which stimulated her lactation, the brownish tabby now was in a third bout of labor.
The ex-President's glorious body, just like Schreber's, becomes increasingly saturated with voluptuousness: it evidences the messy afterbirths of a monstrous cataclysm that went unnoticed at the time, or that somehow never quite happened.
Hybrids, however, are differently circumstanced before and afterbirth: when born and living in a country where their two parents can live, they are generally placed under suitable conditions of life.
She has sucked some miserable, not-quite-a-nightmare dream after her like mucusy strings of afterbirth: men with fedora hats pulled down so as to shadow their faces, walking on long R.
Combined with the resin of Blue Cohosh, it is an excellent remedy for amenorrhoea, dismenorrhoea, afterbirth pains, suppression of lochia and for febrile conditions of the parturient period, and combined with extract of Leptandra or Podophyllum resin, it acts well on the bowels and liver, and if mixed with Dioscorea is excellent for bilious and flatulent colic.