Definition of Chorionic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a chorion. "A chorionic villus is a minute vascular projection on the fetal chorion"

Partainyms: Chorion
Derivative terms: Chorion

Definition of Chorionic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the chorion ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chorionic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Chorionic

1. Referring to the chorion or membrane enclosing the foetus. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorionic

choriocarcinomas
choriocarcinomata
choriocele
chorioepithelioma
choriogonadotrophin
choriogonadotropin
chorioid
chorioid-
chorioids
chorioma
choriomammotropin
choriomeningitis
chorion
chorion frondosum
chorion laeve
chorionic (current term)
chorionic ectoderm
chorionic epithelioma
chorionic gonadotrophic hormone
chorionic gonadotrophin
chorionic gonadotropin
chorionic gonadotropin unit
chorionic growth hormone-prolactin
chorionic plate
chorionic sac
chorionic villi
chorionic villi sampling
chorionic villus
chorionic villus biopsy
chorionic villus sampling

Literary usage of Chorionic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"They are comparatively rare in comparison with carcinomas. chorionic VILLI DR. RIES: A few weeks ago I showed sections and a gross specimen of a case which ..."

2. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London by Obstetrical Society of London (1904)
"oma malignum may be derived from superficial chorionic epithelium, ... This showed no chorionic villi, but had the structure of myxoma. ..."

3. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1910)
"The chorionic Villi. The villi may be obtained in connection with the preparations of the uterus and placenta. In order to see the youngest stages of the ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1888)
"On Myxoma of the chorionic Villi, or Vesicular Mole."' By THOMAS MORE MADDEN, MD, FRCS Ed.; Obstetric Physician, ..."

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