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amnion

[am-nee-uhn] / ˈæm ni ən /


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But a single placenta can make anywhere between 50 to 100 amnion grafts.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

In the following months, Mr Laskey had several procedures, including the amnion - the name of the tissue taken from the inner lining of the donated placenta - grafts.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

A method to correctly specify amnion formation is important to be able to recapitulate human embryo development as closely as possible using stem cell-based embryo models.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024

Some grow to form the extra-embryonic membranes needed to support and protect the growing embryo: the amnion, the yolk sac, the allantois, and the chorion.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Up to this point we have seen that two layers of cells have appeared, one round the yolk sac, called the “entoderm,” and the other lining the amnion, called the “ectoderm.”

From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Gerald R. Leighton


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