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Webster 1913 Edition
Placenta
Pla-cen′ta
,Noun.
pl. L.
Placentæ
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, E. Placentas
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. [L., a cake, Gr. [GREEK] a flat cake, from [GREEK] flat, fr. [GREEK], [GREEK], anything flat and broad.]
1.
(Anat.)
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
☞ In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi on its surface penetrate the blood vessels of the parental uterus, and thus establish a nutritive and excretory connection between the blood of the fetus and that of the parent, though the blood itself does not flow from one to the other.
2.
(Bot.)
The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
Webster 1828 Edition
Placenta
PLACEN'TA
,Noun.
1.
In anatomy, the substance that connects the fetus to the womb, a soft roundish mass or cake by which the circulation is carried on between the parent and the fetus.2.
The part of a plant or fruit to which the seeds are attached.Definition 2024
placenta
placenta
See also: placentă
English
Noun
placenta (plural placentae or placentas)
- (anatomy) 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.
- (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
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Translations
anatomy: placenta
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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Noun
placenta f (plural placentes)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Noun
placenta f (plural placentes)
Galician
Etymology
From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Noun
placenta f (plural placentas)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Noun
placenta f (plural placente)
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫaˈkɛn.ta]
Noun
placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension
- a flat cake
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | placenta | placentae |
| genitive | placentae | placentārum |
| dative | placentae | placentīs |
| accusative | placentam | placentās |
| ablative | placentā | placentīs |
| vocative | placenta | placentae |
Descendants
Noun
placentā
- ablative singular of placenta
References
- placenta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- placenta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “placenta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- placenta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pla.ˈsẽ.tɐ/
Noun
placenta f (plural placentas)
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plǎtseːnta/
- Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
Noun
plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)
Declension
Declension of placenta
Synonyms
- (placenta): pȍsteljica