Definitions for placenta

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placenta pla·cen·ta

Spelling: [pluh-sen-tuh]

IPA: /pləˈsɛn tə/

Placenta is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 296 anagrams from letters in placenta (aacelnpt).

Definitions for placenta

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
2. Botany. the part of the ovary of flowering plants that bears the ovules. (in ferns and related plants) the tissue giving rise to sporangia.

Origin of placenta

1670-80; New Latin: something having a flat, circular form, Latin: a cake Greek plakóenta, accusative of plakóeis flat cake, derivative of pláx (genitive plakós) flat

Examples for placenta

You get the biting of the placenta and you get Renesmee biting her without necessarily seeing it.

Usually, the disease resolves with the birth of the baby and placenta.

Proper means should be taken to hasten the expulsion of the placenta.

I had to tell her she had a condition with her placenta that made abortion risky.

It is in fact the placenta, and is also associated with the functions of the Great Mother.

Nothing much to use in cleaning up the baby and his mother after the birth, no place to dispose of the placenta.

So the allantois of the reptile has become the placenta of the mammal.

The size and character of the placenta are important qualities.

The placenta (and also the child) was considered to be formed of menstrual blood.

It normally occurs during weeks six and eight of pregnancy, when the placenta takes over production of hormones from the ovaries.