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agnathan (iou) and haemomonochorial placenta (medicine)


agnathan (iou)



agnathan noun & adjective. M20.
[from mod. Latin Agnatha (see below), from Greek A-10 + gnathos jaw: see -AN.]
A. noun. A primitive jawless vertebrate of the superclass Agnatha (or Marsipobranchii), which includes the lampreys, the hagfishes, and many fossil fishes. M20.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Agnatha. L20.

haemomonochorial placenta (medicine)


haemomonochorial placenta
<obstetrics> A haemomonochorial placenta is a type of haemochorial placenta (placenta where the chorion, or membrane enclosing the foetus, comes in direct contact with the mother's blood) where a single layer of trophoblast tissue separates the mother's blood from the blood capillaries of the foetus.