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Placenta Structure and Function
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The placenta forms from fetal and maternal tissue after implantation and exchanges gases, nutrients, and waste between fetal and maternal blood without the two mixing.
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Oxygen and nutrients diffuse from maternal blood across the placental barrier into fetal circulation.
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This entry names an exchange-organ mechanism only —