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In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.
Robin Marantz Henig

Meaning of "birth canal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BIRTH CANAL

birth canal  [bɜːθ kəˈnæl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BIRTH CANAL

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Birth canal is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BIRTH CANAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

birth canal

Vagina

The vagina is a fibromuscular elastic tubular tract which is a sex organ and mainly functions for the facilitation of sexual intercourse and childbirth. In mammals, menstruation, which is the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina, is another primary function of the vagina and usually signals fertility. The location and size of the vagina varies among species, and may vary in size within the same species. In humans, the vagina leads from the opening of the vulva to the uterus, but the vaginal tract ends at the cervix. Unlike mammalian males, who usually have only one genital orifice, mammalian females usually have two, the urethra and the vagina. The vaginal opening is much larger than the urethral opening, and both openings are protected by the labia. Regarding amphibians, birds, reptiles and monotremes, the female reproductive tract is generally known among zoologists as a cloaca; in these species, it may additionally serve as intestinal and urinary tracts. The vagina plays significant role in human female sexuality and sexual pleasure.

Definition of birth canal in the English dictionary

The definition of birth canal in the dictionary is the passageway down which the foetus passes during birth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BIRTH CANAL


canal
kəˈnæl
Diconal
ˈdaɪkəˌnæl
ethanal
ˈɛθəˌnæl
Guadalcanal
ˌɡwɑːdəlkəˈnæl
methanal
ˈmɛθəˌnæl
piperonal
ˈpɪpərəʊˌnæl
rhodinal
ˈrəʊdɪˌnæl
tetronal
ˈtɛtrəˌnæl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BIRTH CANAL

birsy
birth
birth certificate
birth control
birth defect
birth father
birth mother
birth parents
birth pill
birth plan
birth rate
birth sign
birth weight
birthdate
birthday
birthday bash
birthday boy
birthday cake
birthday card
birthday girl

WORDS THAT END LIKE BIRTH CANAL

alimentary canal
anal
anal canal
artisanal
banal
Corinth Canal
decanal
fanal
Grand Canal
Grand Union Canal
Haversian canal
medullary canal
Panama Canal
root canal
ruridecanal
semicircular canal
ship canal
spinal canal
subdecanal
Suez Canal

Synonyms and antonyms of birth canal in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «birth canal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BIRTH CANAL

Find out the translation of birth canal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of birth canal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «birth canal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

产道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

canal del parto
570 millions of speakers

English

birth canal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जन्म नहर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قناة الولادة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

родовые пути
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canal de parto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জন্মের খাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le canal de naissance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kanal lahir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Geburtskanal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

産道
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

산도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanal lair
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ống sinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிறந்த கால்வாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जन्म नळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

doğum kanalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

canale del parto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kanał rodny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

родові шляхи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

canalul de nastere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κανάλι γέννησης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geboortekanaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förlossningskanalen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fødselskanalen
5 millions of speakers

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The term «birth canal» is regularly used and occupies the 61.027 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about birth canal

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3 QUOTES WITH «BIRTH CANAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word birth canal.
1
Richard Griffiths
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.
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Robin Marantz Henig
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.
3
Michael Specter
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIRTH CANAL»

Discover the use of birth canal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to birth canal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pregnancy, Birth, And The Early Months
Another important consideration in assessing the progress of labor is the location of the fetus in relation to the birth canal (see Figure 4.2), that is, how far into the birth canal the fetus has descended. The level of descent is known as the station.
Richard I. Feinbloom
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New Scientist
These fossil bones, plus a reconstruction by Lovejoy of the complete pelvic girdle , show that the birth canal was widest from side to side. The canal was also flared at the top and narrow at the bottom, giving it a funnel shape similar to a modern ...
3
Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia
This has important implications for our understanding of obstetric demands in these hominids. If, as these data suggest, the relationship between maternal body size and birth canal capacity was approximately the same in female archaic Homo ...
Takeru Akazawa, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef, 1998
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From Lucy to Language
For a chimpanzee, birth comes easily; the infant's head passes through the birth canal without much constriction. The human pelvis, however, has been extensively reconfigured for two-legged locomotion, and in order to accommodate a ...
Donald C. Johanson, 1996
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The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution
fetus has to pass through the lower part of the pelvis (known as the lesser or true pelvis) via a bony tube called the pelvic cavity or birth canal. Among chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans birth is easy and rapid, because the birth canal is ...
Juan Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez, 2006
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Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective
"A highly readable and scholarly integrative overview of anthropological understandings of human birth.
Wenda Trevathan, 1987
7
New Well Pregnancy Book: Completely Revised and Updated
The baby's position in the uterus is defined by the relationship between the mother's pelvis and the part of the baby that is closest to the birth canal. For example, if the baby's head (occiput) is nearest to the birth canal and the hack of the head ...
Mike Samuels, 1996
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Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective
Locomotor habit determines rigidity and arrangement of the bones of the pelvis, affects the size of the birth canal, and thus determines maximum fetal size at birth. Three locomotor categories in primates can be used to demonstrate how ...
‎2011
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A Brain Is Born: Exploring the Birth and Development of the ...
Soon the membranes rupture naturally or they are ruptured by the obstetrical delivery person and the fluid cushion is gone. Now that fetus' head becomes the " battering ram“ that forces its way through this ever-so-tight birth canal. If mother can ...
John E. Upledger, 2010
10
Intrapartum Ultrasonography for Labor Management
Fetal head descent in the second stage of labor is a dynamically complex process characterized by the coordinate and simultaneous occurrence of descent , rotation, and deflexion within the birth canal. The head is forced by maternal pushing ...
Antonio Malvasi, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIRTH CANAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term birth canal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cuba Is First To Earn WHO Seal For Ending Mother-Baby HIV …
... she gives birth by cesarean section, which has been shown to reduce transmission of the disease through the birth canal. To further protect ... «New Hampshire Public Radio, Jul 15»
2
Study: 50% of pregnant women in U.S. are obese
In addition, overweight babies may have trouble getting through the birth canal, forcing surgical intervention in the form of Caesarean sections. «HLNtv.com, Jul 15»
3
Introducing the Pseudopenis, or Why Female Hyenas Are Feminist …
Over 60 percent of cubs born to first-time spotted hyena mothers are stillborn, suffocating during their journey through the birth canal. (1) Giving ... «Jezebel, Jul 15»
4
The Amazing Muscular Origami That Makes The Vagina So Stretchy
... contract in concert, the muscles in the vaginal wall relax, and the super-elastic wall expands as the baby squeezes through the birth canal. «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
5
It takes guts to contain onslaught of food allergies
Hopefully, my probiotics-rich diet imbued my son Theo with healthy gut flora when he traveled through my birth canal during his natural delivery ... «Press Herald, Jul 15»
6
Birth injury series - assisted or instrumental delivery
Babies cannot always be delivered through the birth canal without assistance from medical staff and sometimes medical instruments or tools ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
7
On this Fourth of July, We Need a Declaration of Dependence
She is the first legal immigrant with her citizenship assured if she can make it out of the birth canal alive under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. ... «Catholic Online, Jul 15»
8
UN and abortion group coordinate attack on the Philippines
The group is known in the U.S. for defending partial-birth abortion, a procedure that delivers a fully formed baby till the head is in the birth canal, ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
9
New film helps women facing breech birth make right decision
... the normal position which enables the baby to be born headfirst through the birth canal. The film 'Breech' is the brainchild of Dr Rebecca Say, ... «HealthCanal.com, Jul 15»
10
The inside story of the microbiome
The first dose consists of vaginal bacteria from the birth canal. “Then because of their close proximity and the pressure on all the body's ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»

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