Definition of Placentae

1. Noun. (plural of placenta) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Placentae

1. placenta [n] - See also: placenta

Lexicographical Neighbors of Placentae

placenta percreta
placenta praevia
placenta previa
placenta previa centralis
placenta previa marginalis
placenta previa partialis
placenta protein
placenta reflexa
placenta reniformis
placenta spuria
placenta triloba
placenta tripartita
placenta triplex
placenta uterina
placenta velamentosa
placentae (current term)
placental
placental abruption
placental barrier
placental calcium-binding protein
placental chorioangioma
placental circulation
placental dysfunction
placental dysfunction syndrome
placental dysmature
placental dystocia
placental extracts
placental function tests
placental growth hormone
placental hormones

Literary usage of Placentae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"The placentae are developed at each of the two edges of the ... But if the edges be separate, there will necessarily be two placentae to each carpel, ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"But in Borne plants, the placentae of the different cells of the germen are united together in a column in its axis, and they are then described as ..."

3. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"CHAPTER XXXIII ABRUPTIO placentae UP to 1664 all hemorrhages occurring during ... Abruptio placentae, if one includes the milder cases, occurs oftener than ..."

4. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"That is, the placentae are borne (as the term denotes) on the wall or ... cut across, showing the ovules on three parietal placentae. ..."

5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Petals usually ephemeral. Stamens indefinite or in some flowers few, with filiform filaments : anthers short. Style one. Ovules with 3 parietal placentae. ..."

6. The Flora of the Palouse Region: Containing Descriptions of All the by Charles Vancouver Piper, Rolla Kent Beattie (1901)
"... axil of a bract: stamens 3-6: ovary 1-celled or 3- celled; placentae parietal or axial: seeds several to many. Panicle apparently lateral: stems naked. ..."

7. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"attached by vessels to several small placentae ... The clinical importance of multiple placentae lies in the fact FIG. 2. ..."

8. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1870)
"The placentae will be parietal, ie, on the wall of the cell (paries, a wall). ... Moreover, the placentae are not always mere marginal lines, bat often wide ..."

9. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"The placentae are developed at each of the two edges of the ... But if the edges be separate, there will necessarily be two placentae to each carpel, ..."

10. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"But in Borne plants, the placentae of the different cells of the germen are united together in a column in its axis, and they are then described as ..."

11. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"CHAPTER XXXIII ABRUPTIO placentae UP to 1664 all hemorrhages occurring during ... Abruptio placentae, if one includes the milder cases, occurs oftener than ..."

12. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"That is, the placentae are borne (as the term denotes) on the wall or ... cut across, showing the ovules on three parietal placentae. ..."

13. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Petals usually ephemeral. Stamens indefinite or in some flowers few, with filiform filaments : anthers short. Style one. Ovules with 3 parietal placentae. ..."

14. The Flora of the Palouse Region: Containing Descriptions of All the by Charles Vancouver Piper, Rolla Kent Beattie (1901)
"... axil of a bract: stamens 3-6: ovary 1-celled or 3- celled; placentae parietal or axial: seeds several to many. Panicle apparently lateral: stems naked. ..."

15. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"attached by vessels to several small placentae ... The clinical importance of multiple placentae lies in the fact FIG. 2. ..."

16. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1870)
"The placentae will be parietal, ie, on the wall of the cell (paries, a wall). ... Moreover, the placentae are not always mere marginal lines, bat often wide ..."

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