amnion

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He had two emergency corneal transplants and three amnion grafts, where tissue from the inner lining of a donated placenta was used to save his eye.

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

Based on this phylogeny, a student asks “Does this mean that lizards, frogs and rabbits all possessed hair and an egg with amnion at some point in their evolution?”

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The third is the chorion, forming the outer membrane which encloses the fetus, and within which is the amnion, or innermost membrane which surrounds the fetus, and between which is another membrane, called the allantois.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus