placental
placental adjective: of or pertaining to the placenta.
Adjective
placental (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the placenta.
- Pertaining to the Placentalia, comprising of mammals that are not marsupials or monotremes.
- We do not know exactly how many placental lineages survived to leave descendants; most estimates are around ten.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 103
Noun
placental (plural placentals)
- A mammal of the infraclass Placentalia.
Examples of placental in a sentence
- Should the mother have a placental abruption that puts either the mother or the baby at risk, an emergency C-section is usually performed.
- The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
- Chorionic villus samples typically contain a mixture of placental villi and maternally derived decidua.
Forms of placental
| plural | placentals |
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Origin of placental
From post-classical Latin placentalis, corresponding to placenta + -al.
Words formed from placental
- anteplacental
- aplacental
- cerebroplacental
- diaplacental
- ectoplacental
- extraplacental
- fetoplacental
- implacental
- interplacental
- intraplacental
- maternoplacental
- nonplacental
- paraplacental
- periplacental
- placental abruption
- placentally
- preplacental
- pseudoplacental
- retroplacental
- subplacental
- transplacental
- umbilicoplacental
- uteroplacental
- zonoplacental
Phrases with placental
Questions about placental
- What does placental mean?
- Placental means of or pertaining to the placenta.
- What part of speech is placental?
- Placental can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near placental in the dictionary
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