placenta
Syllables: pla·cen·ta/pləˈsɛntə/
placenta noun: 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.
Noun
placenta (plural placentae or placentas)
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- afterbirth, clean, glean
- In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
- Synonyms:
- trophosperm
placenta meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
placenta in Hindi
- anatomy: placenta
- बीजांडासन bījāṇḍāsan, अपरा aprā, खेड़ी kheṛī, गर्भनाल garbhanāl, पुरइन purain, आंवल āmval
placenta in Tamil
- anatomy: placenta
- நஞ்சுக்கொடி nañcukkoṭi
placenta in Urdu
- anatomy: placenta
- آن٘وَل ā̃val
placenta in Bengali
- anatomy: placenta
- অমরা omra
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- placenta in Telugu
- జరాయువు jarāyuvu, మాయ māya
- placenta in Kannada
- ಬಸಿರುಮಾಸು, ಜರಾಯು, ಮಾಸು, ಸೆತ್ತೆ
- placenta in Punjabi
- ਪਲੇਸੈਂਟਾ, ਪਲੇਸੇਂਟਾ
- placenta in Odia
- ପ୍ଲାସେଣ୍ଟା, ପ୍ଲେସେଣ୍ଟା, ପ୍ଲାଚେଣ୍ଟା
- placenta in Sanskrit
- अमरा amarā
- placenta in Nepali
- प्लेसेन्टा, प्लासेन्टा, प्ल्यासेन्टा
- placenta in Pashto
- اباڼه abā́ṇa, انول anól
- placenta in Tagalog
- inunan
- placenta in Arabic
- مَشِيمَة mašīma, خَلَاص ḵalāṣ, سُخْد suḵd
- placenta in Malay
- uri, plasenta
- placenta in Persian
- جفت جنین joft-e janin, جفت joft, مشیمه mašime, همراه hamrâh
- placenta in Thai
- รก rók
- placenta in Vietnamese
- nhau, thực giá noãn, nhau thai
- placenta in Myanmar
- အချင်း a.hkyang:
- Kashmiri
- شِکَم śikam
Examples of placenta in a sentence
- Placenta samples were used only for histoculture, as described in the present article.
- Late in gestation DNMT1o-deficient placentas had greater spongiotrophoblast content and reduced labyrinth vascular surface area.
- At mid-pregnancy, feline CLs require extraovarian luteotropic signals which most likely come from the placenta.
Synonyms of placenta
Forms of placenta
| plural | placentae |
|---|---|
| plural | placentas |
Origin of placenta
Learned borrowing from New Latin placenta (literally “flat cake”), an ellipsis of phrases such as placenta uterī (literally “womb cake”) and placenta uterīna (literally “uterine cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth. Doublet of palacsinta and palatschinke.
Words formed from placenta
Phrases with placenta
Words that rhyme with placenta
Questions about placenta
- What does placenta mean?
- Placenta means 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.
- What is placenta in Hindi?
- Placenta in Hindi is बीजांडासन (bījāṇḍāsan), अपरा (aprā), खेड़ी (kheṛī). See Placenta meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is placenta?
- Placenta is a noun.
- How do you pronounce placenta?
- Placenta is pronounced /pləˈsɛntə/.
- What is the plural of placenta?
- The plural of placenta is placentae.
Words near placenta in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: placenta (page history and authors); placenta (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); placenta (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); placenta (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); placenta (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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