(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:09:01

Met`a*dis*coid"al (?), a. [Meta- + discoidal.] 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.

 

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