Get to know Placenta better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Placenta meaning
- An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on 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.
Synonyms of Placenta
Using Placenta
- The main meaning on this page is: An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on 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.
- Useful related words include: reproductive structure, vascular structure.
- In the example corpus, placenta often appears in combinations such as: the placenta, placenta is, placenta and.
Context around Placenta
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Placenta
- In this selection, "placenta" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mammalian, sac, fetus, fighting, wrapped and using stand out and add context to how "placenta" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mammalian placenta called a and cord and placenta to harvest. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "placenta" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with placenta
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Maybe lay off the placenta for a bit? (8 words)
Totary-Jain discovered the placenta’s sleight of hand by accident. (11 words)
Meanwhile, the hawks were now tearing into the placenta, fighting over it. (12 words)
When the supply of yolk is exhausted, the depleted yolk sac transforms into a structure analogous to a mammalian placenta (called a "yolk sac placenta" or "pseudoplacenta"), through which the mother delivers sustenance until birth. (35 words)
That’ll allow doctors to use the umbilical cord and placenta to harvest stem cells, so this is good news for Willow and could lead to the life-saving transplant she needs. (32 words)
Mum Constance Marten and dad Mark Gordon have gone on trial over the death of their daughter, with a court hearing police investigating the pair found a placenta wrapped in a towel. (32 words)
Maybe lay off the placenta for a bit? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
If the organ to which the placenta is attached is removable, such as a section of bowel, then the placenta should be removed together with that organ.
When the supply of yolk is exhausted, the depleted yolk sac transforms into a structure analogous to a mammalian placenta (called a "yolk sac placenta" or "pseudoplacenta"), through which the mother delivers sustenance until birth.
Maybe lay off the placenta for a bit?
She realized she had left the placenta at the hospital after leaving, but called the maternity ward immediately.
Sources connected to the investigation told the Manchester Evening News that placenta was found in the back seat of the couple's charred vehicle by fire crews.
That’ll allow doctors to use the umbilical cord and placenta to harvest stem cells, so this is good news for Willow and could lead to the life-saving transplant she needs.
Unearthed video footage from 2019 shows a pilot whale expelling its placenta in Yell Sound, Shetland.
According to Medicine, this condition occurs in pregnancy before a baby is born when the inner layer of the placenta called the amnion is damaged.
A person may catch the disease from an infected animal through contaminated milk or by handling the fetus, placenta, or fluids from an infected animal that had given birth.
Meanwhile, the hawks were now tearing into the placenta, fighting over it.
Mum Constance Marten and dad Mark Gordon have gone on trial over the death of their daughter, with a court hearing police investigating the pair found a placenta wrapped in a towel.
Oyen’s team is working to develop new ways to see how oxygen flows in and out of the placenta, using high-resolution imaging and modeling.
Scientists improved the cloning process by swapping the placenta of the cloned embryo with ones created through in vitro fertilization.
The Bee Venom and Placenta 24 Carat Gold Ultimate Creme has been slashed from £750 to a staggering £95 for a limited time.
The offender asked her to cut the placenta into small pieces, flush it away and bury the foetus.
The placenta, the new organ that forms to nourish the fetus, presents new receptors for the disease to bind to.
Tony Robson, who made the initial discovery, said the placenta and umbilical cord were not hidden but simply placed on top of the riverbank.
Totary-Jain discovered the placenta’s sleight of hand by accident.
After the baby was born, her nasopharyngeal swab, placenta and umbilical stump tested positive for Covid-19 by RT-PCR test.
Brittany, 32, learned the pregnancy was affected by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, which can occur with identical twins or higher multiples who share placenta.
Common combinations with placenta
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the placenta 37×
- placenta is 7×
- placenta and 6×
- placenta was 4×
- placenta or 3×
- placenta to 3×
- from placenta 3×
- placenta called 2×
- and placenta 2×
- placenta of 2×