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

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

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 Schmucker, Samuel Christian