My body – just casually – had made a brain, a beating heart, organs, bones, arteries and veins – as well as pregnancy accessories like a placenta and umbilical cord – with no direction or ...

Say the word “ubiquitous” repeatedly. Each time, you’ll make a U sound and then press the lips together to breathe out a B sound. Which quickly gets cut off by a KW consonant cluster that gives way ...

Haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) occurs when there is transplacental passage of maternal immunoglobulin G ...

From watermelon stomach to chocolate cysts, you might wonder why doctors decided to name some ailments after foods—after all, ...

Although the placenta shows a wide variation in its anatomy between individuals, in the majority of the cases it is perfused with blood by two umbilical arteries and one vein. The blood vessels spread ...