placenta

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Intriguing - women send your wife their babies placenta and she makes it in to capsules for them?

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that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form

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noun

that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form

noun

the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for placenta.

noun

that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form

noun

the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus

Example sentences

Intriguing - women send your wife their babies placenta and she makes it in to capsules for them?

I know sheep's placenta has been used forever as a hair conditioner.

It's weird that the article doesn't specify where the placenta is from - whether it's from humans or animals.

Think banana/orange peels, carrot tops, or the vegetable placenta of a bell pepper.

A big problem was that only a very small amount of stem cells usable for treatment can be collected from ,say, like a placenta.

Menstrual blood has been collecting in the uterus for some weeks, creating a lining on the walls intended to become a placenta should one get pregnant.

The baby is attached to the placenta, which remains in the womb, via the umbilical cord and gets oxygen this way during the birth process.

In mice, there's "evidence for their absolute requirement for placenta development and embryo survival.

The invading placental cells paralyse the vessels so they cannot contract, then pump them full of growth hormones, widening them tenfold to capture more maternal blood.

Banana peels and bell pepper placenta compost, orange peels can be candied and zested, and carrot tops go into the pot for vegetable broth and _then_ are composted.

Cells from the invading placenta digest their way through the endometrial surface, puncturing the mother’s arteries, swarming inside and remodelling them to suit the foetus.

The drug can cause a problematic rise in a pregnant woman's blood pressure, trigger premature labor, and may be linked to a dangerous condition in which the placenta tears away from the uterine wall.

Although the article dramatizes the conflict, the tug-of-war over resources is real, which probably is why the placenta is one of the fastest evolving mammalian organs in terms of morphology and genetics.

Apparently, women's bodies have the ability to spontaneously abort fetuses of "the wrong" sex early in the pregnancy, either by preventing implantation or by cutting off blood supply to the placenta.

From wikipedia: Apart from thyroid cells NIS can also be found, although less expressed, in other tissues such as the salivary glands, the gastric mucosa, the kidney, the placenta, the ovaries and the mammary glands during pregnancy and lactation.

It's easy to see where the idea came from when you consider the variety of things that the Chinese, for example, believe to be aphrodisiacs, which include the brain of a monkey, the tongue of a sparrow, the human placenta, the penis of a white horse, rabbit hair from old brushes, and the dried sexual parts of a male tiger soaked in a bottle of European brandy for six months.