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It comes from a temporary organ called the placenta. The fetus is connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord. From the placenta, which is normally attached to the uterine wall, blood, oxygen, and nutrients are transferred through the umbilical cord to the developing fetus.
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Describe how oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the foetus?
Oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the fetus through the umbilical cord. The oxygen circulates in the mothers red blood cells.
What blood vessel in fetus contain the most oxygen?
In the umbilical cord you have one vein and two arteries. This vein goes to the liver of foetus. This blood vessel contains most oxygen and food in case of foetus. After birth this vessel gets obliterated to form the falciform ligament.
Does Mother's blood flows into the foetus through placenta.True or False?
False. The mothers blood flows through the placenta in vessels next to the foetal blood that flows in separate vessels. Oxygen and nutrients can flow from the mothers blood into the foetus' blood and carbon dioxide and waste products can flow from the foetus' blood to the mother's blood through the vessel membranes, however the two bloods will never actually mix.
Why is amniocentesis important?
The amniotic fluid of the foetus is tested in amniocentesis to check for abnormalities in the foetus. Unfortunately, it may also lead to female foeticide as the sex of the foetus can also be determined.
What is the process which substances pass from the mother to the foetus?
The deoxygenated blood and the baby's waste products pass from the foetus to the mother. The mother can then dispose of these through her systems.
Where does a foetus obtain its oxygen from?
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What organ carries food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus?
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Why does a foetus's lungs don't work properly?
The foetus in embedded in fluid called amniotic fluid. Some times the foetus takes a breath in that fluid, just before the delivery. The result is disastrous. If the foetus is born with the fluid in the lungs, it is going to die in most of the cases. The foetus is getting all the oxygen and the nutrition from the mother. This is supplied through the placenta. So the lungs of the foetus are at rest in the womb of the mother.
How are nutrients and oxygen passed to the foetus and waste taken away?
Everything is supplied and filtered by the placenta.
What does a fetus need?
A growing foetus needs the cord because it gives the food and oxygen from the mother into the babyThe cord feeds the baby and gives the baby oxygen.All foetus's need a cord !
How does the foetus get food and oxygen?
The fetus gets food and oxygen through the umbilical cord.
Describe how oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the foetus?
Oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the fetus through the umbilical cord. The oxygen circulates in the mothers red blood cells.
What blood vessel in fetus contain the most oxygen?
In the umbilical cord you have one vein and two arteries. This vein goes to the liver of foetus. This blood vessel contains most oxygen and food in case of foetus. After birth this vessel gets obliterated to form the falciform ligament.
How does the fetus obtain food and oxygen?
The mother's blood supply enters the foetus via the umbillical cord and allows oxygen to diffuse from the mother's blood into the foetus.
How does oxygen travel from the air to the foetus?
Through the mother's lungs into her bloodstream, then across the placenta and through the umbilical cord to the fetus.
How are nutrients absorbed by the fetus?
The nutrients are absorbed through the placenta by the foetus. The foetus gets the oxygen and nutrition from the mother. The blood of the mother and foetus comes very close to each other in the placenta. Both are not mixed up. They are separated by very thin membrane. The surface area of the contact is very large as compared to the size of placenta.
What substance can be passed from the mother to the foetus?
Carbon dioxide and other such waste gases diffuse from the foetus and across the placenta into the mother's blood. Urea (excretory product) also diffuses into the mother's blood. (The substances in bold will answer question).
