"Chorion" is a word in ENGLISH
The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb;
also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of
development.
The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
The true skin, or cutis.
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
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The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
Read the complete definitionAn animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.
Read the complete definitionA membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with …
Read the complete definitionámban - A polypus, especially a polypous tumour in the mucous membrane of the nose.
Read the complete definitionA thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Read the complete definitionAny membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations …
Read the complete definitionWithout definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.
Read the complete definitionDestitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate.
Read the complete definitionInflammation of the arachnoid membrane.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
Read the complete definitionThe arachnoid membrane.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid.
Read the complete definitionCobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid.
Read the complete definitionA small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain …
Read the complete definitionPaps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in …
Read the complete definitionOne of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between …
Read the complete definitionThe germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
Read the complete definitionThe branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
Read the complete definitionAn enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint …
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