SW StudyWalks

Biology  /  Bio 3347  ·  Atom · ~20 seconds

Placenta Structure and Function

Video not yet published
to the StudyWalks catalog
State

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.

Show

Oxygen and nutrients diffuse from maternal blood across the placental barrier into fetal circulation.

Watch for

This entry names an exchange-organ mechanism only —