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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In embryology, noting the placenta of certain mammals such as the primates (man and apes), in which the villi are restricted to a disk-shaped chorionic area on the ventral side of the embryo.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. anatomy Discoidal by derivation; applied especially to the placenta of humans and apes, supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Anat.) Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.

Etymologies

  1. meta- +‎ discoidal (Wiktionary)

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