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placenta

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Placenta is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of obstetrics and gynecology . It provides information on scientific and clinical investigations pertaining to placental research and their applications. The journal includes full length and mini ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Placenta \Pla*cen"ta\, n.; pl. L. Placent[ae] , E. Placentas . [L., a cake, Gr. ? a flat cake, from ? flat, fr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad.] (Anat.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After the second month of pregnancy, estriol levels steadily increase as the placenta takes over estrogen production. 344. ▪ If there's any chance it is placenta praevia, it could detach and cause a haemorrhage. ▪ In the case ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s of plants, 1690s of mammals, from Modern Latin placenta uterina "uterine cake" (so called 16c. by Italian anatomist Realdo Colombo), from Latin placenta "a cake, flat cake," from Greek plakoenta , accusative of plakoeis "flat," related to plax (genitive ...

Usage examples of placenta.

When Miss Wu asked what the medication was, the doctor replied that it was made from abortus, as it is called there, and placenta, and that it was very good for the skin.

Stillbirths, abortuses, and placentas are in hot demand at the BLI for the dozen or so groups doing hormone research.

The death of the foetus may be occasioned by a diseased condition of the embryo, amnion, or placenta, and also by convulsions or peritoneal inflammation.

Derr had delivered the placenta, I asked Jazzy if she wanted to hold you, but she wanted no part of you.

And last, he already had good indications that it might be possible for a man to carry the fetus with the placenta attached to the omentum, that layer of fatty material on the inside of the lower abdomen.

Porak, after giving some historical notes, describes a long series of experiments performed on the guinea-pig in order to investigate the passage of arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, alizarin, atropin, and eserin through the placenta.

To expedite the extraction, she drew out an arm and amputated it, and finding the extraction still difficult, she cut off the head and completely emptied the womb, including the placenta.

There are many more that can be detected in the early check, before the blastula is implanted in the replicator bed and starts forming its placenta.

We were dealing with a prolapsed umbilical and the placenta had torn away from the uterus wall.

This monster consisted of two females of about the same size, united from the sternal notch to the navel, having one cord and one placenta.

The fragile placenta must be chemically and hormonally persuaded to release from the blood-vessel-enriched uterus, without damaging too many of its multitude of tiny villi, then floated free from the uterine wall in a running bath of highly oxygenated nutrient solution.

All four embryos were in the so-called blastocyst stage, in which the future child consists of a small cellular cluster at one end of a hollow ball of cells that will eventually form the fetal part of the placenta.

The placenta produces a gonadotrophin of its own that is not quite like those of the pituitary.

Lees are among the 150,000 Hmong who have fled Laos since their country fell to communist forces in 1975, they do not know if their house is still standing, or if the five male and seven female placentas that Nao Kao buried under the dirt floor are still there.

Martine one afternoon after a school field trip, a particularly neurosecretory interview with a dying Egg, an Ulanyi embryo who, for complex biological reasons, was never to come to term and would end its existence without leaving its placenta.