A battledore insertion is when the cord is attaached to the margin of the placenta.
A battledoor is an obsolete term for a battledore, a racket used in the game of battledore, an early form of badminton.
Battledore
In western civilization badminton came from a game called battledore and shuttlecock.
battledore insertion
A forerunner of Badminton, played with a shuttlecock and rackets
Placenta battledore
e is no known cause of a battledore placenta. It is simply the way the cord grows out of the placenta, there is also nothing that can be done to change the pattern of growth once it begins to form. It can however be detected by ultrasound examination of the placenta.
a shuttlecock and a racket and the players
SQUASH, HANDBALL, GOODMINTON, and BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK all preceded THE GAME WE NOW CALL BADMINTON.
Badminton have existed at least two thousand years ago in a form of the game battledore and shuttlecock which were played in ancient China, Greece and India.
Although the game of badminton has existed in many different incarnations since the days of Ancient Greece, today's game derives from the western past-time of Battledore and Shuttlecock. It eventually developed into its present incarnation and was definitively launched in 1873 at badminton house, home of the Duke of Beaufort.