English-Dutch translations for placenta

• moederkoek
• placenta
  Vorige week hebben we gestemd over de financiering van oncontroversieel stamcelonderzoek waarbij gebruik wordt gemaakt van placenta' s, navelstrengen en volwassen stamcellen. We voted last week to support the funding of uncontroversial stem-cell research using placenta, umbilical cord and adult stem cells.
  Deze chemicaliën worden nu aangetroffen in foetussen en placenta's. Ze worden overgebracht op foetussen en zuigelingen. There are persistent and bioaccumulative chemicals, and these are now to be found in placentas, foetuses and new-born children, to which they are transferred.
  Somatische stamceltherapieën, waarbij gebruik wordt gemaakt van stamcellen van pasgeborenen of van de navelstreng en de placenta, hebben een hoogtepunt bereikt. Somatic stem cell therapies, which are those that use stem cells extracted from humans after they are born or from the umbilical cord and placenta, are at a tipping point.

Definition of placenta

• A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth
• In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop

Related words

• placentation
• placental
• foetoplacental
• aplacental
• placentary
• placenta praevia
• placenta previa
• placental abruption
• placental insufficiency