Usually means: Placenta expelled after childbirth occurs.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word afterbirth:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. afterbirth: Merriam-Webster
  2. afterbirth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afterbirth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. afterbirth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. afterbirth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Afterbirth, afterbirth: Wordnik
  7. afterbirth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. afterbirth: Wiktionary
  9. afterbirth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. afterbirth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. afterbirth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. afterbirth: Dictionary.com
  13. afterbirth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Afterbirth (American Horror Story), Afterbirth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Afterbirth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. afterbirth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. afterbirth: Rhymezone
  18. Afterbirth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. afterbirth: FreeDictionary.org
  20. afterbirth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. afterbirth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. afterbirth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. afterbirth: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afterbirth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. afterbirth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Afterbirth: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. Afterbirth: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  8. afterbirth: Medical dictionary
  9. Afterbirth: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. afterbirth: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Afterbirth: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. GLOSSARY OF DAIRY TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See afterbirths as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (afterbirth)

noun:  The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.

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