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Chorion   Listen
noun
Chorion  n.  
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
(b)
The true skin, or cutis.
2.
(Bot.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.





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"Chorion" Quotes from Famous Books



... the modern editors, and actually ejected by Dindorf. Yet something seems to be wanting in connexion with [Greek: oros], for the guide (sect. 20) says merely that he will bring them to [Greek: a chorion], and on the fifth day after it is said that they ...
— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon


Words linked to "Chorion" :   chorionic villus, mammalian, amniote, sac, fetal membrane


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