Afterbirth

Definition: Afterbirth

Afterbirth

Noun

1. The placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sequence	Afterbirth, afterburden; placenta, secundines.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Afterbirth

English words defined with "afterbirth": Heam ♦ Secundine ♦ Unavoidable hemorrhage ♦ Whethering. (references)

Etymologies containing "afterbirth": Heam. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic. (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

It would have been, but her husband slipped on the afterbirth and broke his collarbone. (The Tall Guy; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Birth and afterbirth : a materialist account (reference) East of the navel and afterbirth : reflections and song poetry from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Afterbirth (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Afterbirth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Afterbirth" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	23	72,767

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "afterbirth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fëmijë i lindur pas vdekje. (various references)

Arabic		‏المشيمة أو الحبل السري. (various references)

Bulgarian		последък, плацента (placenta). (various references)

Chinese		胞胎, 胞衣 . (various references)

Dutch		nageboorte (after birth, placenta, secundines). (various references)

Esperanto		postnaskaĵo (placenta). (various references)

Finnish		syntymä vanhemman kuoleman jälkeen. (various references)

French		placenta, naissance posthume. (various references)

German		Nachgeburt (after birth, placenta, secundines). (various references)

Greek		ύστερο (placenta), ακόλουθο. (various references)

Hebrew		שלי�" (placenta). (various references)

Hungarian		végrendelkezés utáni születés, méhlepény (placenta). (various references)

Indonesian		tali ari. (various references)

Italian		placenta (placenta), nascita postuma. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		胎盤 (placenta). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいば�" (placenta), おりもの (fabric, menstruation, textile), のちざ�" (placenta, secundina), せい�" (correction, idiomatic expression, post-natal, set phrase), あとざ�" (placenta, secundina). (various references)

Korean		후산. (various references)

Manx		bein. (various references)

Pig Latin		afterbirthay

Portuguese		nascimento póstumo. (various references)

Romanian		placentã. (various references)

Russian		послед (secundines), детское место. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posteljica (caul, placenta), posle porođaja (postnatal). (various references)

Spanish		placenta; secundinas, placenta (placenta), nacimiento póstumo. (various references)

Swedish		postum födsel, efterbörd. (various references)

Turkish		son (bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), plasenta (placenta). (various references)

Ukranian		пізня дитина. (various references)

Welsh		adeni (regenerate, revival). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	u�. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "afterbirth": afterbirths. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-h-i-r-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: birthrate.
	-2 letters: birretta, brattier, firebrat.
	-3 letters: arbiter, barefit, battier, biretta, farther, fattier, fritter, rarebit, rattier, rebirth.
	-4 letters: artier, attire, baiter, barite, barret, barter, bather, batter, bertha, bitter, breath, fairer, father, fatter, fitter, frater, hafter, hatter, hitter, irater, rafter, rather, ratite, ratter, rebait, ritter, tarter, terbia, territ, threat, thrift, titfer, tither, trefah, triter.
	-5 letters: afire, afrit, after, airer, airth, baith, barer, barre, bathe, befit, berth, betta, birth, biter, briar, brief, brier, britt, earth, faith, farer, feria, fiber, fibre, firer, firth, friar, frier, frith, fritt, habit, hater, heart, hirer, irate, ither, rater, rathe, rebar, refit, rehab, retia, rifer, taber, tarre, tater, terai, terra, tetra, theft, their, theta, thief, titer, tithe, titre, trait, treat, tribe, trier, trite.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-h-i-r-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: afterbirths.
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