amnion

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

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

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

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

Four embryonic membranes form to support the growing embryo: the amnion, the yolk sac, the allantois, and the chorion.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The clerestory windows, covered with the amnion of sheep, admitted now and then a sickly yellow glare from the full moon, which, however, shot a beam of pure silver through the smoke-hole in the roof.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)