Definition of Trophoblastic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the trophoblast. "Trophoblastic cancer"

Partainyms: Trophoblast
Derivative terms: Trophoblast

Definition of Trophoblastic

1. Adjective. of, or relating to a trophoblast ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trophoblastic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Trophoblastic

1. Relating to the trophoblast. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trophoblastic

trophic levels
trophic nucleus
trophic ulcer
trophic web
trophically
trophicity
trophied
trophies
trophism
tropho-
trophobioses
trophobiosis
trophobiotic
trophoblast
trophoblast protein 1
trophoblastic (current term)
trophoblastic cancer
trophoblastic lacuna
trophoblastic neoplasms
trophoblastic operculum
trophoblastoma
trophoblasts
trophochromatin
trophochromidia
trophocyte
trophoderm
trophodermatoneurosis
trophodynamics
trophological

Literary usage of Trophoblastic

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

1. The Conquest of Cancer: A Plan of Campaign, Being an Account of the by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1907)
"... arises from normal trophoblastic tissue in certain cases of pregnancy, where the pancreas of the child, for one reason or another, is not in action. ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"But no part of the maternal tissue, excepting the blood circulating in the trophoblastic lacunae, is carried away at birth, previous statements to the ..."

3. Outlines of Chordate Development by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"Very often the trophoblast in this region becomes thickened, forming a trophoblastic knob ("trager"), which enlarges and pushes the embryonic shield down ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1902)
"cells of the trophoblastic tissue of the placenta, are found to contain glycogen. The maternal glycogen was converted into sugar, passed into the maternal ..."

5. Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society by Edinburgh Obstetrical Society (1908)
"Shows syncytial mass applied to maternal tissue and, beyond it, invasion of same by isolated trophoblastic cells. Fig. 2. ..."

6. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1922)
"Whenever an ovum implants itself in the tube wall, the gestation sac is bounded on all sides by a layer of trophoblastic cells and masses of fibrin, ..."

7. Physiological Principles in Treatment by Walter Langdon-Brown (1908)
"It is, in fact, due to trophoblastic cells left in the body which have not been ... Just as trypsin is capable of destroying normal trophoblastic cells, ..."

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