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haemoendothelial placenta(medicine)
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haemoendothelial placenta (medicine) and woad-waxen (medicine)


haemoendothelial placenta (medicine)


haemoendothelial placenta
<gynaecology> A haemoendothelial placenta is a type of placenta in which the inner lining (endothelium) of the capillaries of the chorion (membrane enclosing the foetus) comes in direct contact with the mother's blood.


woad-waxen (medicine)


woad-waxen
<botany> A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America.

Synonym: greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.

Origin: Cf. Wood-wax.

Source: Websters Dictionary