Definition of Transplacental

1. Adjective. Occurring through or by way of the placenta. "Transplacental passage of nutrients"

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Definition of Transplacental

1. Adjective. (anatomy physiology) Through or across the placenta ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transplacental

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Transplacental

1. Crossing the placenta. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transplacental

transpierce
transpierced
transpierces
transpiercing
transpirable
transpirate
transpiration
transpirational
transpirations
transpiratory
transpire
transpired
transpires
transpiring
transplace
transplacental (current term)
transplacentally
transplanckian
transplanetary
transplant
transplant lung syndrome
transplantable
transplantar
transplantation
transplantation antigen
transplantation chimera
transplantation conditioning
transplantation genetics
transplantation immunology
transplantation of cornea

Literary usage of Transplacental

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Smokeless Tobacco Or Health: An International Perspective by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"Anderson, LM, Jones, AB, Riggs, CW, Kovatch, RM Modification of transplacental tumorigenesis by 3-methylcholanthrene in mice by genotype at the Ah locus and ..."

2. Proposed National Strategies For The Prevention Of Leading Work-related (1988)
"Little information is available on human transplacental carcinogenesis, ... Chemicals found in the workplace may be transplacental carcinogens that ..."

3. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 1994 (1994)
"Little information is available on human transplacental carcinogenesis, ... Chemicals found in the workplace may be transplacental carcinogens that ..."

4. Environmental Epidemiology by National Research Council (U. S.), National Research Council (1991)
"effects of transplacental exposure to PCBs and DDE (dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene). The routes of exposure are unknown, but believed to include ..."

5. Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: The Report of the edited by Lauren Zeise, Amy J. Dunn (2000)
"Studies to date were not designed to distinguish between transplacental ... In any case, a transplacental effect or an ETS effect is biologically plausible. ..."

6. Children's Environmental Health Research: Indoor Mold and Children's Health edited by Allen Dearry, Gwen Collman (2000)
"Laboratory studies have found an association between transplacental exposure to certain PAH and ... Some studies suggest that effects of transplacental B ..."

7. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1902)
"The peculiarities of the transplacental interchanges of the last three months of intra-uterine life would seem to be specially associated with ..."

8. Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Foetus by John William Ballantyne (1902)
"I do not propose to consider here the various possibilities of transplacental transmission of disease from mother to fœtus ; these have been fully dealt ..."

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