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What is placenta? How it is look like? Write its functions ( atleast 5 ).
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Placenta is a special tissue that helps the human embryo in obtaining nutrition from mother's blood. Structure Placenta is a disc-like structure embedded in the Uterine wall. It contains villi on the side of the embryo. It contains blood spaces, on mothers side, which surround the villi.
⭑Definition:-
A flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
⭑Structure:-
Finger like structure. Have choronic villi.
⭑Functions:-
❥ An interface between mother and the feotus.
❥ Supplies nutrients to feotus.
❥ The waste produce in the foetus is exited through this placenta.
❥ It saves the foetus from probable infections by separating the blood of mother. thus acting like a filter.
❥ The placenta also breaks down the food particles consumed by mother to enable the nutrition to reach the foetus faster.