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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

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

As the watery condition of the blood increases with advancing pregnancy, so dropsy of the amnion is a disease of the last four or five months of gestation.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.