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What does placentation mean?

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  1. (biology) the local fusion of the embryonic stage of an animal to its parent for physiological exchange to promote the growth and development of the young; involves a placenta in non-egglaying mammals
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Functional roles for relaxin within human reproductive tissues have also been implicated during placentation, parturition, and lactation.
The disjunction or dialysis of the carpels, for instance, frequently renders axile placentation marginal.
These are distinguished by characters of the bracts, placentation, inflorescence type, cytology and distribution.
These molecules are involved in the process of embryo implantation, membranogenesis, placentation, organogenesis and endometrial remodeling.
The placentation is constantly axile in the inferior row and parietal in the upper one.
Salicornioideae seeds have a basal placentation, congruent with other representatives of the Chenopodiaceae.

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