decidua
IPA: dɪsˈɪdʒuʌ
noun
- (anatomy) A mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy
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Examples of "decidua" in Sentences
- The result is the formation of a decidua.
- The decidua is shed during the parturition process.
- It surrounds the embryo together with decidua basalis.
- Euphorbia decidua is a plant of the Euphorbiaceae family.
- Scrublands are dominated by ber and kair Capparis decidua.
- After implantation the uterine endometrium is called the decidua.
- All other decidua on the uterine surface belongs to decidua parietalis.
- During pregnancy it is also produced by the placenta, chorion, and decidua.
- After implantation the decidua remains, at least through the first trimester.
- A thin decidua can also be a contributing factor to such trophoblastic invasion.
- Further, the decidua has to allow a very controlled invasion of the trophoblast.
- Possum Haw, Ilex decidua, is also very nice, I believe it gets somewhat larger than these winterberries, forming a tree.
- The part of the decidua which lines the remainder of the body of the uterus is known as the decidua vera or decidua parietalis.
- Closer to the interior, larch (Larix decidua), arolla pine (Pinus cembra), and scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) replaces P. mugo.
- In the uterine cavity the placenta acts as a physical barrier between the fetus and the mucosa of the uterine wall (also known as the decidua) [3].
- The peculiar tissue growth within the uterus called decidua, which occurs normally in pregnancy and serves to fasten the developing ovum to the inner lining of the uterus, may be produced experimentally.
- Tree species include Acacia raddiana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Maerua crassifolia and Capparis decidua; herbaceous species are Panicum turgidum, Cassia italica, Pergularia tomentosa and Heliotropium bacciferum.
- This comes away as the "afterbirth" at parturition; at the same time, the part of the mucous lining of the womb that has united inseparably with the chorion is torn away; hence it is called the decidua ( "falling-away membrane"), and also the
- What She Planted: Possumhaw trees ( Ilex decidua ) show off red berries above striped slender trunks for much of the winter and the purple wisteria-like blossoms of the Texas mountain laurel ( Sophora secundiflora ) flamboyantly and fragrantly announce the arrival of spring.
- At the timberline belt of the Tatras mixed Pinus cembra-Larix decidua forests grow, similar those in central Alps. Above timberline, (1400 m in the north-western Carpathians to 1900 m in the south), there is a distinct krummholz zone consisting of dense thickets of mountain pine (Pinus mugo), dwarf juniper (Juniperus communis subsp. nana) and green alder (Alnus viridis).