"Villi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be attributable to hypertrophy (enlargement) of the villi on the inner surface of the womb, which become greatly increased in number and hollowed out internally into a series of cysts, or pouches, containing liquid. Unlike the true mole, therefore, they appear to be disease of the maternal structure ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... formed, from the hinder end of which the allantois grows (al). In Figure 1.141 the allantois is larger; the yelk-sac (ds) smaller. In Figure 1.142 the embryo shows the gill-clefts and the outline of the two legs; the chorion has formed branching villi (tufts.) In all four figures e embryo, a outer germinal layer, m middle germinal layer, i inner germinal layer, am amnion (ks head-sheath, ss tail-sheath), ah amniotic cavity, as amniotic sheath of the umbilical cord, kh embryonic ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel |
