The cow looked sick and behind her dangled the inevitable retained placenta.

"Retained placenta," Thomas said with the forced coolness he used when trying to sound calm and professorial.

Risks of retained placenta include hemorrhage and infection.

A retained placenta in a mare (see below) is a notorious cause of laminitis and founder.

She's just delivered Mrs. Mann, and there's a retained placenta.

A retained placenta is a placenta that doesn't undergo expulsion within a normal time limit.

Manual placenta removal is a procedure to remove a retained placenta from the uterus after childbirth.

In fact beef cattle rarely have disease unless they have a predisposing factor such as retained placenta or difficult parturition.

In humans, retained placenta is generally defined as a placenta that has not undergone placental expulsion within 30 minutes of the baby's birth.

The advantage of misoprostol is that it can be used for evacuation not only following miscarriage, but also following birth for retained placenta or hemorrhaging.

Retained placenta is a condition where all or part of the placenta or membranes are left behind in the uterus during the third stage of labour.

It has veterinary uses in Colombia, where it has been used to treat horse colic and retained placenta in cows.

In another study, 40% of patients who underwent repeated D&C for retained products of conception after missed miscarriage or retained placenta developed AS.

Causes of postpartum hemorrhage are uterine atony, trauma, retained placenta, and coagulopathy, commonly referred to as the "four Ts":

Occurring in the last three months of pregnancy, fescue poisoning increases the risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirths, retained placenta, absent milk production, and prolonged pregnancy.

According to King Edward's biographer, Jennifer Loach, Jane Seymour's death may have been due to an infection from a retained placenta.

Its oxytocin-like effect causes uterine contractions and more rapid delivery of the placenta but this was said by Sheila Kitzinger to cause an increased prevalence of retained placenta.

Obstetrical hemorrhage may be due to a number of factors such as placenta previa, uterine rupture or tears, uterine atony, retained placenta or placental fragments, or bleeding disorders.

It's a law of nature: If emergencies don't happen when you're sleeping, as Mrs. Mann's retained placenta did, they happen when you're having fun, have something special planned, or are just plain pooped.

Retained placenta: If the entire placenta is not passed after the birth of a foal, mares that retain all or some of the afterbirth can founder, whether through toxicity, bacterial fever or both.

The average time from delivery of the baby until complete expulsion of the placenta is estimated to be 10-12 minutes dependent on whether active or expectant management is employed In as many as 3% of all vaginal deliveries, the duration of the third stage is longer than 30 minutes and raises concern for retained placenta.