English-Italian translations for placenta

placentaLa scorsa settimana abbiamo votato a favore del finanziamento della ricerca non controversa sulle cellule staminali, che prevede l'impiego di placenta, cordone ombelicale e cellule staminali adulte. We voted last week to support the funding of uncontroversial stem-cell research using placenta, umbilical cord and adult stem cells. Va tenuto presente che, nello scambio a livello placentare, le sostanze nocive di origine ambientale possono passare dalla madre all'embrione e danneggiarlo. We should also note that through the placental route, harmful substances from the environment may pass from the mother to the embryo and do it harm.

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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