Assertion: placenta | /r/HasProperty | shed
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text: it is supposed that the uterine contractions during labour expel most of the intervillous blood into the uterine veins before the placenta is shed; also, as Young points out, intervillous blood does not coagulate, so that, if the placenta be placed in ﬁxing ﬂuid for some days before sections are cut, the greater part of the blood in the intervillous spaces becomes washed out.