Word Meanings - DECIDUA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.
Related words: (words related to DECIDUA)
- EMBRYO SAC
See EMBRYONIC - EMBRYOTOMY
The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal. - INNERVATION
Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating. - EMBRYON
See EMBRYO - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - EMBRYOGRAPHY
The general description of embryos. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - INNERLY
More within. Baret. - EMBRYOTROPH
The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - EMBRYOPLASTIC
Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells. - EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
In the state of, or having, an embryonal. - EMBRYOLOGIST
One skilled in embryology. - INNERMOSTLY
In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning. - EMBRYONIC
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle , the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - UTERUS
The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - EMBRYONARY
Embryonic. - EMBRYOTIC
Embryonic. - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - PROEMBRYO
The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses. - TWINNER
One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - DINNERLY
Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - MONEMBRYONY
The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a. - INEMBRYONATE
Not embryonate. - PSEUDEMBRYO
A false embryo. An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding. - APLACENTAL
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.