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placenta, low(medicine)
low placenta(medicine)
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Placenta(medicine)
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placenta membranacea (medicine) and ostracism (iou)


placenta membranacea (medicine)


placenta membranacea


An abnormally thin placenta covering an unusually large area of the uterine lining.

Synonym: placenta diffusa.


ostracism (iou)



ostracism noun. L16.
[French ostracisme or mod. Latin ostracismus from Greek ostrakismos, from ostrakizein, from ostrakon shell, potsherd (because the Greek vote was effected with potsherds): see -ISM.]
Greek History. The custom in ancient Greek cities of voting to banish for five or ten years a citizen regarded as unpopular or too powerful; a vote to effect such a banishment. L16.
Banishment by General consent; exclusion from favour, common privileges, or a particular social group. M17.
N. Annan Nor was he likely to suffer social ostracism in London where a great thinker was by no means unique.