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placenta

pluh sen tuh

  • n  that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form
  • n  the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus

  • My wife ate her own placenta.
  • A professional placenta chef comes to Joel Stein's home to prepare his wife's discarded organ.
  • In essence, says Fisher, "the placenta is a traffic cop," and its main job is to let good things in and keep bad things out.
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  • Yossi Benayoun in SkySports
    There was no animal parts used and no injections,said Benayoun. "The doctor has treated a lot of players and it seems to be held in very high regard. She explained everything to me beforehand and told me she would use fluid from a placenta...
  • Justin Rigali in PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
    It seems virtually every byproduct of live birth -- amniotic fluid, amniotic membrane, placenta, cord blood, and the tissue of the umbilical cord itself -- contains stem cells that may rival embryonic stem cells in their flexibility,the...
  • Michael Jackson in Los Angeles Times
    When their daughter, Paris Michael Katherine, now 11, was born, he snatched her and "just went home with her with all the placenta all over her," leaving Rowe behind in the hospital, Jackson told ABC News in 2003.

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