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CHORIONIC VILLUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chorionic villus" is a kind of...):
villus (a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane)
Holonyms ("chorionic villus" is a part of...):
chorion (the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))
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