Word.ws English Dictionary

placentomes

placentomes is the plural of placentome.

Meaning of placentome

Noun

placentome (plural placentomes)

  1. All the tissue associated with placentation (the cotyledon and the caruncle)
    • Tissue samples were taken from extraembryonic structures (intercotyledonary membrane, placentome, umbilical cord, amniotic fluid, meconium), and organs including CNS (brain, cerebellum, brainstem, spinal cord), lymphoid organs (prescapular, mesenteric, submandibular, mediastinic lymphnodes, thymus...2015 September 30, “Experimental Infection of Sheep at 45 and 60 Days of Gestation with Schmallenberg Virus Readily Led to Placental Colonization without Causing Congenital Malformations”, in PLOS...

Questions about placentomes

What is placentomes the plural of?
Placentomes is the plural of placentome.

Words near placentomes in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: placentomes (page history and authors); placentome (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: “placentomes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/placentomes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.