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Definition of Decidua
1. Noun. The epithelial tissue of the endometrium.
Definition of Decidua
1. n. The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.
Definition of Decidua
1. Noun. (anatomy) A mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy ¹
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Definition of Decidua
1. a mucous membrane of the uterus [n -UAS or -UAE] : DECIDUAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Decidua
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Decidua
Literary usage of Decidua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"the decidua of the uterus and probably absorb from it nutritive materials for
the growth of the embryo : they can be forcibly withdrawn from the decidua ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The decidua.—The growth of the chorion and placenta can only be understood by
tracing the formation of the decidua. uterus. Even before the arrival of the ..."
3. On the theory and practice of midwifery by Fleetwood Churchill, David Francis Condie (1862)
"A very important observation on the structure of the decidua vera has been made
by Dr. Montgomery, in his valuable work On the Signs of Pregnancy. ..."
4. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"tinguished as a new temporay lining to the uterus, the so- called decidua.
Into this decidua the ovum, on its descent from the Fallopian tube, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"On the Vein* of the Uterine decidua.—Dr. ROBERT LEE says that he has examined
many ova which have been expelled from the uterus in the third month of ..."
6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"which is called the decidua serotina. In the decidua vera generally, and in the
decidua reflexa, the hypertrophy having readied a certain stage ceases ..."
7. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"During the formation of the decidua reflexa, the entire egg, as well as the body
of the uterus, has considerably enlarged. That portion of the uterine ..."
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