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  2. Fetal membranes - Wikipedia

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    The chorionic membrane is a fibrous tissue layer containing the fetal blood vessels. [4] Chorionic villi form on the outer surface of the chorion, which maximise surface area for contact with maternal blood. [ 4 ]

  3. Chorion - Wikipedia

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    Placenta with attached fetal membranes (ruptured at the margin at the left in the image), which consists of the chorion (outer layer) and amnion (inner layer).. The part of the chorion that is in contact with the decidua capsularis undergoes atrophy, so that by the fourth month scarcely a trace of the villi is left.

  4. Chorionic hematoma - Wikipedia

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    Chorionic hematoma is the pooling of blood between the chorion, a membrane surrounding the embryo, and the uterine wall. [2] It occurs in about 3.1% of all pregnancies , [ 2 ] it is the most common sonographic abnormality and the most common cause of first trimester bleeding .

  5. Gestational sac - Wikipedia

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    The gestational sac is spherical in shape, and is usually located in the upper part (fundus) of the uterus.By approximately nine weeks of gestational age, due to folding of the trilaminar germ disc, the amniotic sac expands and occupy the majority of the volume of the gestational sac, eventually reducing the extraembryonic coelom (the gestational sac or the chorionic cavity) to a thin layer ...

  6. Choriogenesis - Wikipedia

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    In developmental biology, choriogenesis is the formation of the chorion, an outer membrane of the placenta that eventually forms chorionic villi that allow the transfer of blood and nutrients from mother to fetus. [1]

  7. Chorionic villus sampling - Wikipedia

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    Recent studies have discovered that chorionic villi can be a rich source of fetal stem cells, multipotent mesenchymal stem cells. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] A potential benefit of using fetal stem cells over those obtained from embryos is that they side-step ethical concerns among anti-abortion activists by obtaining pluripotent lines of ...

  8. Amniotic sac - Wikipedia

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    The third membrane is the allantois, and the fourth is the chorion which surrounds the embryo after about a month and eventually fuses with the amnion. [ 6 ] Amniocentesis is a medical procedure where fluid from the sac is sampled during fetal development , between 15 and 20 weeks of pregnancy, to be used in prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal ...

  9. Amniocentesis - Wikipedia

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    Amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling is necessary to ... is an infection of any combination of the amniotic fluid, placenta, fetus, fetal membranes, or ...