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Definition of Chorioallantoic membrane
1. Noun. The very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.
Medical Definition of Chorioallantoic membrane
1. Extraembryonic membrane formed in birds and reptiles by the apposition of the allantois to the inner face of the chorion. The chorioallantoic membrane is highly vascularised and is used experimentally as a site upon which to place pieces of tissue in order to test their invasive capacity. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorioallantoic Membrane
Literary usage of Chorioallantoic membrane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... mated to a homozygous resistant line and assigned a genotype based on at least
eight embryos for each subgroup assayed on the chorioallantoic membrane. ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"... onto the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM), into the amniotic cavity (AMC) and
into the allantoic cavity (ALC) as described by Beveridge and Burner (1946). ..."
3. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Finally this author reported successful cultures of rubella virus on the
chorioallantoic membrane of the developing chick embryo in 2 out of 4 attempts, ..."
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