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Chorion

noun
1.
The outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals).



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"Chorion" Quotes from Famous Books



... viz., one vein, two arteries and the urachos, join near the navel, and are united by a skin which they have from the chorion and so become like a gut or rope, and are altogether void of sensibility, and this is that which women call the navel-string. The vessels are thus joined together, that so they may neither be broken, severed ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous


Words linked to "Chorion" :   mammalian, chorionic villus, amniote, fetal membrane, sac, mammal, chorionic


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