Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), Ernst Kaltenbrunner, went on trial at Nuremberg on April 11, 1946. He replaced Reinhard Heydrich who was assassinated by Czech agents in May, 1943 and assumed control over the SD and the Gestapo.
The placenta is connected to the fetus by an umbilical cord. Inside the cord are two arteries and a vein; both arteries are referred to as umbilical arteries. The two arteries wrap around the umbilical vein which carries oxygenated blood and nutrients from the placenta to the fetus. Once the oxygen and nutrients have been used, the umbilical artery transfers the deoxygenated blood and waste from the fetus back to the placenta.
umbilical artery in Medicine Expand. umbilical artery n. Either of two arteries that before birth is a continuation of the common iliac artery and after birth partly forms the medial umbilical ligament and partly is reduced in size and gives off the superior vesical artery.