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Synonyms for placenta
pləˈsɛn təpla·cen·ta
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placentanoun
Synonyms:
afterbirthplacentanoun
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:
afterbirthplacentanoun
In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
Synonyms:
afterbirth
Princeton's WordNet
placentanoun
that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form
placentanoun
the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
placentanoun
Synonyms:
secundines, after-birth
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How to use placenta in a sentence?
It's rapidly absorbed and crosses the placenta.
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.
The other two were miscarriages, in both we found evidence of Zika in the placenta. In addition, Brazil has looked at a number of babies as well and found Zika in the amniotic fluid of two women whose fetuses had evidence of microcephaly via sonogram.
The sooner you deliver the placenta, the sooner the uterus will clamp down and there will be less of a concern.
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.
Translations for placenta
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- مشيمةArabic
- placentaCatalan, Valencian
- placentaCzech
- PlazentaGerman
- πλακούνταςGreek
- placentaSpanish
- جفتPersian
- istukkaFinnish
- placentaFrench
- slánúIrish
- placentaGalician
- नालHindi
- ընկերքArmenian
- legkaka, fylgjaIcelandic
- שִׁליָהHebrew
- 胎盤, 後産, 胞衣Japanese
- ಜರಾಯುKannada
- 胎盤, 태반Korean
- rehuwhāereereMāori
- uriMalay
- placenta, moederkoekDutch
- łożyskoPolish
- placentaPortuguese
- placentăRomanian
- семяно́сец, плаце́нта, после́дRussian
- plàcēnta, pȍsteljica, пла̀це̄нта, по̏стељицаSerbo-Croatian
- posteljicaSlovene
- moderkaka, placentaSwedish
- பனிக்குடம்Tamil
- జరాయువు, మాయTelugu
- รกThai
- نالUrdu
- thực giá noãn, nhauVietnamese
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