What is "amniotic"

Usage examples of "amniotic".

Each one was large and curved, containing a bubbling yellowish liquid like amniotic fluid.

Zufa felt a gush between her legs, a flow of warm amniotic water running down onto her feet and the stone path.

Berenice found herself before the pink-tanks where the clone-grown human bodies floated in their precious amniotic fluid.

The blood and amniotic fluid that covered her body freeze-dried into dark dust that fell to the floor.

A deluge of brownish-green amniotic fluid poured out and spread across the operating field.

She did not have to remind herself that an amniotic fluid embolus was the most dreaded complication in obstetrics.

The old theory was that oxytocin caused the uterus to contract so violently that the amniotic fluid was forced out of the water bag and into the veins of the womb.

Sure, they know you were right about the amniotic fluid embolus, but a maniac on the loose is another thing altogether.

While still in their amniotic vats, the embryos hung in mechanical wombs, exposed to increasing doses of Veritas so that their immune systems became accustomed to the drug and did not purge it completely from their bodies.

When Amsel was baptized and the birds gave the first sign, Hedwig Lau had still been swimming in amniotic fluid.

Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm?

But when my series of amniotic sea-changes were done, the thing was obvious.

He stretched against the walls and floated in the amniotic fluids of his mother.

There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.

The secundines weighed ten pounds and there were nine quarts of amniotic fluid.