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AFTERBIRTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does afterbirth mean?
• AFTERBIRTH (noun)
The noun AFTERBIRTH has 1 sense:
1. the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born
Familiarity information: AFTERBIRTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("afterbirth" is a kind of...):
placenta (the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus)
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