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Placenta
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ PLACENTA  id+ | CAKE like |
            id+ | CHEESE CAKE like |
  | SPREAD OUT |  see> PLAIN
  complex family of ideas in
  note PLAN PLATO PLAYA PLAY and
       DYSPLASIA PLASMA PLASTER
       PLACID PLEA PLEASURE
       PALM PALMAR
  gr   PLAGIOS       = SPREAD OUT
       PLANASTHAI      SPREAD  WANDER  see> PLANET
  id+  NET             leading to
  eng  PLAGIARISM      SNARING or STEALING
       PLATY~          prefix for FLAT
  med> PLATYRRHINE     or
       PLATYRHINE      FLAT NOSE
  biol> PLATYHELMINTH  FLATWORM
  med> PLACENTA        alike to a FLAT CHEESE CAKE
  lat  PLACENTA        CHEESE CAKE
       PLACENTINUS     CAKE MAKER
        PLANCUS        PLANK FLAT
        PLACERE        PLEASURE
  ply> | PLACENTAL AND PLAIN PLEASURE
         SHARE THE SAME PLAN PLANK
         PLATE or AIRPLANE |
  med> FETAL ORGAN OR SOME EVEN CONSIDER IT TO BE A NEOPLASM
       IMPLANTED OR GRAFTED INTO THE UTERUS WHICH DEVELOPS THE
  VASCULAR ELEMENTS OR CHORION  ALSO KNOWN AS TROPHOBLAST
  MATERNAL NUTRIENTS ARE FILTERED AND CONVEYED BY THE
  FETAL BLOOD TO THE FETUS BY THE UMBILICAL ARTERIES AND VEIN
  WHEN AN EMBRYO DEVELOPS A PLACENTA IT BECOMES A FETUS
  OTHER PLACENTAL PARTS ARE THE
  MEMBRANES OR AMNION WHICH ENVELOP THE FETUS AND CONTAIN THE
  AMNIOTIC FLUID AND CELLS
  THE PLACENTA IS A BRITTLE ORGAN RESEMBLING A
  FLAT RED COTTAGE CHEESE LIKE MASS
  note PLACOID PLATEAU PLATEN PLATERESQUE PLATFORM PLAYA
  for more see> PLAGUE  see> PLAIN  see> PLEASE
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