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Placenta

noun

(pl. L. placentae, E. placentas)

That part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form.

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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"Placenta" Quotes from Famous Books

... fecundation. The growing fetus is connected with this vascular organ by means of a sort of cable, called the umbilical cord. The cord is almost entirely composed of blood-vessels which convey the blood of the fetus to the placenta and return it again. The fetal blood does not mix with that of the mother, but receives oxygen and nourishment from it by absorption through the thin walls which alone separate it ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... the departure of a spirit from the womb of the world into the unknown. To the region whither he goes, the man enters newly born. We forget that it is a birth, and call it a death. The body he leaves behind is but the placenta by which he drew his nourishment from his mother Earth. And as the child-bed is watched on earth with anxious expectancy, so the couch of the dying, as we call them, may be surrounded by the birth-watchers of the other world, waiting like anxious ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

Words linked to "Placenta" : uterus, veil, Placuna placenta, embryonic membrane, caul, womb, afterbirth, placenta previa, ovary, reproductive structure, vascular structure