English-French translations for placenta

  • placentaIl s'agit de substances chimiques persistantes et bioaccumulatives. Ces substances chimiques sont maintenant présentes dans le ftus et le placenta et sont transmises au ftus et aux nouveau-nés. 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. Les thérapies géniques somatiques, qui utilisent des cellules souches extraites du corps humain après la naissance ou du cordon ombilical et du placenta, sont à un point charnière. 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

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