Noun
placenta (plural: placentae or placentas)- 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.
- In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
...The placenta is an organ unique to mammals that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall. The placenta supplies the fetus with oxygen and food, and allows fetal waste to be disposed via the maternal kidneys. The word placenta comes from the Latin for cake, from Greek plakóenta/plakoúnta, accusative of plakóeis/plakoús – πλακόεις, πλακούς, "flat, slab-like", Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus in reference to its round, flat appearance in humans. Protherial (egg-laying) and metatherial (marsupial) mammals produce a choriovitelline placenta that, while connected to the uterine wall, provides nutrients mainly derived from the egg sac.The placenta develops from the same sperm and egg cells that form the fetus, and functions as a fetomaternal organ with two components, the fetal part (Chorion frondosum), and the maternal part (Decidua basalis). Read full entry
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Placenta???
okay i have a anterior
placenta and i was wondering
what and if t will affect my
birth
okay i know it depends on the
location so look at your belly
button and from there go to
your right side to you hit you
hip bone and go down your
tummy thats where my placenta
is
at 24 weeks i had a ultrasound
and the the tech said that my
placenta was low but not low
lying
Im 30 weeks now
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http://www.whattoexpect.com/pr egnancy/ask-heidi/anterior-pla centa.aspx |
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How does the position of the How do you know if you have an
anterior placenta? I am 14
weeks and have had 3
ultrasounds but have never
been able to even see a
placenta.
What does the positioning have
to do with your pregnancy?
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the placenta can be in alot of different positions. an anterior placenta means it's in front of the baby. this affects the pregnancy by making it take alot longer before you begin to feel baby's movements because most of them are cushioned by the placenta. I had an anterior placenta with baby #3 and didn't feel him move until about 22 weeks. More commonly is posterior placenta (behind the baby) and sometimes you get placenta previa (where the placent is down and covering or partially covering the cervix) they monitor this carefully as it's dangerous when you go into labor if it hasn't resolved and can also cause spotting/bleeding throughout the pregnancy. I am sure they will see the placenta soon. Have you asked about it? |
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Has anyone got a good recipie I just had a baby and with it
coming up to christmas i
thought what a great way of
using my placenta, i believe
very much in putting the good
back into my body.
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A nice green salad is a good thing to put into your body. Have you heard of mad cow disease?....or how cannibalism is known to cause mental illness? If you are trying to be more ¨spiritual,¨ why don't you just give the placenta back to the earth? |
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