Crossword-Solution: CHORION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chorion | n. | The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. |
| Chorion | n. | The true skin, or cutis. |
| Chorion | n. | The outer membrane of seeds of plants. |
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| Embryonic membrane | 3 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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ENE
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Sentences with CHORION (5)
Hippocrates, in his work on the "Nature of the Infant," tells us that twins are the result of a single coitus, and we are also informed that each infant has a chorion; so that both kinds of plural gestation (monochorionic and dichorionic) were known to the ancients.
Sperling reports 2 instances of triplets; in the first there was 1 placenta and chorion, 2 amnions, and the sex was the same; in the second case, in which the sexes were different, there were 3 placentas, 3 chorions, and 3 amnions.
PRO- or PROT: (in compounds) the earlier form (opposed to META); hence:-- Prochorion: the first form of the chorion.
Within the outer chorion the tiny curved foetus lies on the large embryonic vesicle, to the left above.
The chorion forms a spacious vesicle, to the inner wall of which the small foetus (to the right above) is attached by a short umbilical cord.