A normal-looking placenta with the cord inserted in the center. This is the baby's side.
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This is the mother's side. It was attached to the wall of the uterus.
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A cool heart-shaped placenta I worked on one year around Valentine's Day.
A placenta with a marginal cord insertion (at the edge instead of in the middle.)
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This placenta has an extra lobe, called a succenturiate lobe.
A close up of the marginal insertion.
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A cool shot of the amniotic sac. The baby lived inside there!