placental

/ pləˈsɛntəl /

adjective

1. (esp of animals) having a placenta See also eutherian

   placental mammals

Example Sentences

In the absence of other competing placental mammals, these rodents have diversified over roughly five million years into a surprising array of distinct forms and species.

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She said: "I later found out that an accident is one of the main causes of a placental abruption. Which is how we actually lost our son. They didn't listen at all."

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The court heard that in all three cases the mothers suffered a placental abruption, a serious condition in which the placenta starts to come away from the wall of the womb.

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When he got there, everything was fine, except that her baby, he discovered, was one of two wriggling black mounds covered by swarms of black flies, which were "devouring the remnants of the placental membranes."

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"From my perspective, you want to make sure every single person having a placental detachment at 18 weeks gets an abortion so they don't die," Greene said.

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