Word.ws English Dictionary

placentomegaly

placentomegaly noun: the presence of an abnormally enlarged placenta.

Noun

placentomegaly (uncountable)

  1. The presence of an abnormally enlarged placenta.
    • Fetal magnetic resonance imaging at 23 + 3 revealed placentomegaly and normal central nervous system architecture.2015 April 15, Sruti S. Nadimpalli et al., “Congenital Parvovirus B19 Infection: Persistent Viremia and Red Blood Cell Aplasia”, in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, volume 2, →DOI

Origin of placentomegaly

From placento- + -megaly.

Questions about placentomegaly

What does placentomegaly mean?
Placentomegaly means the presence of an abnormally enlarged placenta.
What part of speech is placentomegaly?
Placentomegaly is a noun.

Words near placentomegaly in the dictionary

  1. placentographies
  2. placentography
  3. placentology
  4. placentomal
  5. placentome
  6. placentomegaly
  7. placentomes
  8. placentomic
  9. placentone
  10. placentophagia
  11. placentophagic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: placentomegaly (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “placentomegaly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/placentomegaly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.