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.