Placenta

understood to mean king's placenta, and consequently in early times, he was considered to slay the king's (i.e. the pharaoh's) enemies, and extract their innards for the king's use, metaphorically creating something resembling a placenta for the king. This bloodthirsty aspect leads him to be referred to, in such as the Pyramid texts, as the (one who) lives on hearts. He also became associated with more literal placentas, becoming seen as a deification of the royal placenta, and so a god involved with

fetus is dependent on the mother while in the womb for blood circulation. The fetus will receive blood through the placenta, attached to the umbilical card, which sends the oxygenated blood to the fetus’s lungs. Through this process the fetus receives all nutrients and oxygen it needs to survive. Waste from the fetus is then sent back to the mother through the umbilical cord and placenta to the mother’s circulation for proper elimination. Then the process is repeated until the fetus is born. Once the

Significance of the study: Zika virus, also known as ZikV, has been in the spotlight with several studies being carried out to better understand the effects of the virus on foetuses and newborns from infected mothers. This increased interest in the virus is as a result of reported increase in the occurrence of microcephaly in Brazil, an occurrence which researchers suspect to be as a result of a corresponding global increase in the prevalence of this virus (Sarno et al. 2016; WHO 2016) and although

A postpartum hemorrhage is the loss of blood after having a baby. The problem is that the uterus is supposed to continue contracting after birth because the placenta needs to be delivered. Once the placenta is delivered contractions need to continue to constrict the blood vessels to stop the bleeding; and if the blood vessels don’t constrict, blood keeps pouring out causing a possible hemorrhage. The average amount of blood loss during a vaginal birth is approximately 500 milliliters; and for a cesarean

Anne Fadiman’s novel The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down depicts the colliding worlds of the Western and Hmong culture in an effort to save the life of a little girl, who is diagnosed with epilepsy. The novel tells two different, but interwoven, stories in which one from the point of view of Lia’s parents, and another from the point of view of health care providers. Both Lia’s parents and health care providers want the best for Lia Lee, but due to a lack of understanding and cultural barriers

higher rates to being a victim to maternal morbidity. The two main issues linked to repeat cesarean deliveries is placenta previa and placental abruption both increasing the risk of having a

Interventions for postpartum haemorrhage in developing countries. Background: Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) is defined as a blood loss of 500 ml or more within 24 hours after birth [1], regardless of method of delivery (cesarean section or vaginal). When the blood loss is more than 1000ml, patients will be considered as severe PPH [2]. With the development of economy, some developing countries made an impressive progress in reducing the maternal and child mortality. However, PPH is still the leading

During the first stage of labor cervical effacement and dilation occur. This stage begins with the appearance of true labor contractions and end when the cervix is completely dilated at ten centimeters and the cervix is completely effaced at 100%. This stage accounts for the longest duration for both nulliparous and parous women. The first stage of labor contains three sub phases the latent, active, and transitional phase. The latent phase occurs from the onset of labor until the cervix is dilated

Balibar questions the concept of neo-racism insofar as there remains the possibility that the event of naming a neo-racism is a tactical adaptation or strategy to artfully disguise hegemonic (Balibar, 20) maneuvers that have always been present. The “neo-racism hypothesis” (Balibar, 17) is an iteration of strategies of the dominant that rationalize the cultivation of politics, discourses, and logics that exclude and relegate othered bodies to conditions in which they are dispossessed, captured, and

Teratogenic Effect of Zika Virus on Foetuses The significance of the study: Zika virus, also known as ZikV, has been in the spotlight with several studies being carried out to better understand the effects of the virus on foetuses and newborns from infected mothers. This increased interest in the virus is as a result of a reported increase in the occurrence of microcephaly in Brazil, an occurrence which researchers suspect to be as a result of a corresponding global increase in the prevalence of