单词 | mother cake |
释义 | > as lemmasmother cake c. More fully mother cake, mother's cake, uterine cake. The placenta. Now historical and rare.Also called womb-cake (see womb n. Compounds 2b). [After post-classical Latin placenta placenta, specific sense of classical Latin placenta a kind of flat cake (see placenta n.). With cake of the womb (see quot. 1615) compare post-classical Latin placenta uteri (1553 or earlier). With mother's cake compare post-classical Latin placenta matris (1574 or earlier); with uterine cake compare post-classical Latin placenta uterina (1596 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια iii. 95 The Pancreas..nearest resembleth the Liuer or cake of the wombe, which groweth to the rootes of the Infants nauell. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations lxxii. 517 In some, it doth stick onely in one place, by the mediation of a carnous substance, which we call Placenta, the Uterine cake in women, because it resembleth the round figure of a Cake. 1705 tr. P. Portal Compl. Pract. Men & Women Midwives viii. 44 Tho' each Child is always enclosed in its peculiar membranes, yet Twins have sometimes but one Mother-cake or After-burthen [Fr. placenta]. 1752 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. iii. ii. 233 If by these methods the Placenta cannot be brought away, introduce your hand slowly into the Vagina and feel for the edge of the cake, which when you have found, pull it gradually along. 1849 A. I. Coffin Treat. Midwifery 34 If too much force is applied to the cord, the cake may be torn, and a part of it remain. 1921 S. W. Bandler Expectant Mother (new ed.) 169 Wherever the ovum first settles, at that point develops the subsequent placenta or mother cake. 1996 F. Spiegl Sick Notes 6/1 Equally unappetising is ‘mother's cake’, or Placenta. < as lemmas |
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