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Word: placentas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Made Plain | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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