Noun
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI've always been told I have a giant placenta. Bethenny Frankel
A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something. Brooke Burke
After the baby was born, her nasopharyngeal swab, placenta and umbilical stump tested positive for Covid-19 by RT-PCR test. Source: Internet
But embryos fed by a placenta or extraembryonic yolk supply can grow very fast, and changes to relative growth rate between parts in these organisms help to produce the final overall anatomy. Source: Internet
Although the delivery seemed to go well initially, the placenta broke apart during the birth and became infected; puerperal (childbed) fever was a common and often fatal occurrence in the eighteenth century. Source: Internet
Cato speaks of an enormous number of breads including; libum (sacrificial cakes made with flour), placenta (groats and cress), spira (our modern day flour pretzels), scibilata ( tortes ), savaillum (sweet cake), and globus apherica ( fritters ). Source: Internet