Crossword-Solution: PLACENTA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Placenta | n. | The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. |
| Placenta | n. | The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PLACENTA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hospital discharge? | 1 answer |
| Womb nourishment | 1 answer |
| Spot conservationists with a primary food supplier | 1 answer |
| Prenatal nourishment source | 1 answer |
| Organ that nourishes a fetus | 1 answer |
| Organ nourishing a fetus | 1 answer |
| One end of an umbilical cord | 1 answer |
| OVULE-bearing part of flower/carpel (bot.) | 1 answer |
| Nourishment in the womb | 1 answer |
| Midwife's focus in the third stage of labor | 1 answer |
| Human's starter home? | 1 answer |
| First warm blanket? | 1 answer |
| Fetus-feeding organ | 1 answer |
| CARPEL to which seeds are attached, part of | 1 answer |
| UNION between mother and embryo | 2 answers |
| UMBILICAL cord connection | 3 answers |
| AFTERBIRTH, part of the | 3 answers |
| OESTROGEN-production site | 4 answers |
| ESTROGEN-production site | 4 answers |
| Starter home | 4 answers |
| ACQUIRED DURING FETAL DEVELOPMENT | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLACENTA (5)
Allen speaks of a girl who became pregnant at twelve years and nine months, and was delivered of a healthy, 9-pound boy before the physician's arrival; the placenta came away afterward, and the mother made a speedy recovery.
Ruysch gives an account of a surgeon's wife at Amsterdam, in 1686, who was delivered of a strong child which survived, and, six hours after, of a small embryo, the funis of which was full of hydatids and the placenta as large and thick as one of three months.
Harley and Tanner speak of a woman of thirty-eight who never had borne twins, and who aborted a fetus of four months' gestation; serious hemorrhage accompanied the removal of the placenta, and on placing the hand in the uterine cavity an embryo of five or six weeks was found inclosed in a sac and floating in clear liquor amnii.
The placenta was left behind and drainage established through the vagina, and the woman made complete recovery.
The uterine contractions were feeble, and the attached placenta was removed only with difficulty; there was considerable hemorrhage.
Quotes with PLACENTA (3)
New Rule: Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. We've all been laughing heartily at the wacky antics of the "birthers"--the far-right goofballs who claim Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii, and therefore the job of the president goes to the runner-up, Miss California Carrie Prejean. And there's nothing you can do to convince these people--you could hand them, in person, the original birth certificate, with the placenta, and have …
I had long since wished that they would have been born with a dictionary sized how-to guide in my placenta. It would have been custom printed for each child by God. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I’d been forced to walk through the minefield of parenthood feeling like I was blindfolded and hopping on one leg. Surely my kids should understand that I was trying to know what I was doing, but the verdict still seemed out at the moment.
Jamie came back to the apartment one night to find her spreading a viscous fluid onto a canvas. It was threaded wtih blood. "Good God," he said. "What the hell is that?" Pia didn't bother to look up but continued to knead the clear slime across the canvas. "It's my new piece." "But what is it?" He kept pointing. He'd never seen something so disgusting in his life. And her hands were completely in it. "It's Jodie's placenta. She gave it to me. I'm going to tack it up and let i…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1992–2024).