The placenta (pl.: placentas or placentae) is a temporary embryonic and later fetal organ that begins developing from the blastocyst shortly after implantation...

Placenta accreta occurs when all or part of the placenta attaches abnormally to the myometrium (the muscular layer of the uterine wall). Three grades of...

Placenta praevia is when the placenta attaches inside the uterus but in a position near or over the cervical opening. Symptoms include vaginal bleeding...

up placenta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The placenta is a human organ which provides nutrients to a developing embryo or foetus. Placenta may...

Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with...

edges of the placenta. After delivery, a circumvallate placenta has a thick ring of membranes on its fetal surface. Circumvallate placenta is a placental...

Retained placenta is a condition in which all or part of the placenta or membranes remain in the uterus during the third stage of labour. Retained placenta can...

Placental abruption is when the placenta separates early from the uterus, in other words separates before childbirth. It occurs most commonly around 25...

umbilical cord uncut after childbirth so that the baby is left attached to the placenta until the cord naturally separates at the umbilicus. This usually occurs...

Placenta is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. It provides information on scientific and clinical investigations...

A choriovitelline placenta is a placenta formed by the yolk sac and chorion. In a choriovitelline placenta, the yolk sac fuses with the chorion and, subsequently...

the placenta comes out of the birth canal after childbirth. The period of time starting just after the baby is expelled until just after the placenta is...

haemorrhaging. There are 4 degrees of antepartum haemorrhaging: Placenta praevia refers to when the placenta of a growing foetus is attached abnormally low within...

The placenta is an organ which links the fetus to the mother in mammals for the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and fetal waste products...

umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta. During prenatal development, the umbilical cord is physiologically and...

Placentation is the formation, type and structure, or modes of arrangement of the placenta. The function of placentation is to transfer nutrients, respiratory gases...

traditional placenta cake (known as "koptoplakous", κοπτοπλακοῦς), a dish similar to baklava, was consumed. The earliest known detailed recipe for placenta, from...

involves the delivery of the neonate, as well as the placenta and fetal membranes. The placenta is a critical organ that develops in the maternal uterus...

The placenta of humans, and certain other mammals contains structures known as cotyledons, which transmit fetal blood and allow exchange of oxygen and...

Human placentophagy, or consumption of the placenta, is defined as "the ingestion of a human placenta postpartum, at any time, by any person, either in...

the placenta. An artificial uterus may include components of equivalent function. Methods have been considered to connect an artificial placenta and other...

The windowpane oyster (Placuna placenta) is a bivalve marine mollusk in the family of Placunidae. It is edible, but valued more for its shell (and its...

collected from the placenta. After the health care provider draws the cord blood from the placental end of the umbilical cord, the placenta is couriered to...

early placenta previa. As the pregnancy progresses, the placenta tissue surrounding the vessels over the cervix undergoes atrophy, and the placenta grows...

Anseropoda placenta, also called the goose foot starfish, is a species of sea star in the family Asterinidae. Anseropoda placenta is up to 20 cm (7.9 in)...

Placenta specific 8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PLAC8 gene. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000145287 – Ensembl, May 2017 GRCm38: Ensembl...

hence the vessels traverse between the amnion and the chorion towards the placenta. Without Wharton's jelly protecting the vessels, the exposed vessels are...

Arachnoides placenta is a species of sea urchin of the family Clypeasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. It is placed in the genus Arachnoides...

ultrasound, or level 2 ultrasound, evaluates anatomic structures of the fetus, placenta, and maternal pelvic organs. This scan is an important and common component...

Finnish mycologist Tuomo Niemelä in 2005 to contain the species Rhodonia placenta. The following species are recognised in the genus Rhodonia: Rhodonia obliqua...