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amnion

[am-nee-uhn] / ˈæm ni ən /


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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

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

If the answer is yes, a branch leads upward to another question: does the egg have amnion?

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

The embryo thus enclosed in the egg finds its protection in the fact that it is encased in a fluid contained in the amnion.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker




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