placenta

[Lat. a cake.] 1. Anat .: The organ by which the fœtus is con nected with the mother, and vascular connection *8. To keep place together: To be in accordance; between the two maintained. It ultimately comes to accord. 9. To play for place : away as the afterbirth. Called also Uterine-cake. 2. Bot.: The part of the ovary from which the 197 portion of an angle of each cell. When elongated IMG:content-1156.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: Thick, round, and concave, both on the upper and the lower surfaces, as the root of Cyclamen. pla-çen-tal, a. & s. [Eng. placent (a); -al. ] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to the placenta; po e ing or constituted by a placenta. B. As subst.: Any member of the division Placental i a (q. v.). placental-presentation, s. Obstetrics: A term applied to those cases of par turition in which the placenta is situated internally over the mouth of the womb, often causing exce ive hæmorrhage. ( Mayne .) tplăç-en-tā-11-ą, s . pl . [Mod. Lat., from Latin placenta (q. v.).] Zool .: A division of Mammal i a, instituted by C. Bonaparte in 1837. It is conterminous with the Mono delph i a (q. v.), and with Huxley's division Eutheria. pla-çent-ar-ў, a. [Eng. placent (a); -ary.] Per taining or relating to the placenta.