amnion
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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
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
The umbilical cord is surrounded by the amnion, and the spaces within the cord around the blood vessels are filled with Wharton’s jelly, a mucous connective tissue.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The amnion, which is the innermost of the membranes surrounding the fetus, seemingly has a special office, which is to secrete the fluid technically called the amniotic.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall
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