Synonyms for placenta
pləˈsɛn təpla·cen·ta

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1. placentanoun

   Synonyms:
   afterbirth

2. placentanoun

   A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

   Synonyms:
   afterbirth

3. placentanoun

   In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

   Synonyms:
   afterbirth

Princeton's WordNet

1. placentanoun

   that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form

2. placentanoun

   the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus

Matched Categories

1. • Reproductive Structure
   • Vascular Structure

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1. placentanoun

   Synonyms:
   secundines, after-birth

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1. List of paraphrases for "placenta":

   placentae, placental

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1. Jonathan Chevrier:

   Once in someone's body, it can take decades to eliminate it, dDT also crosses the placenta and is found in breast milk, so developing fetuses and children will be exposed if their mothers are exposed.

2. Lukasiewicz Hagai:

   We've been investigating the placenta for the last decade and we have discovered that the placenta cells have unique properties that can help the body to recover after exposure to high level of radiation, we are injecting these cells to the bodies' muscles...that will help the bone marrow to recover after radiation.

3. Emily Miller:

   I don't want to draw sweeping conclusions from a small study, but this preliminary glimpse into how Covid-19 might cause changes in the placenta carries some pretty significant implications for the health of a pregnancy, we must discuss whether we should change how we monitor pregnant women right now.

4. Kjersti Aagaard:

   Humans, like all placental mammals, run the risk of bleeding to death after that placenta separates off the wall of the uterus, so 4.5 million years of evolution is at our backs, helping us clot a little bit more effectively when we're pregnant.

5. Ali Salanti:

   For decades, scientists have been searching for similarities between the growth of a placenta and a tumor, the placenta is an organ, which within a few months grows from only few cells into an organ weighing [approximately] 2 pounds, and it provides the embryo with oxygen and nourishment in a relatively foreign environment. In a manner of speaking, tumors do much the same— they grow aggressively in a relatively foreign environment.