Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The outermost layer of cells of the blastocyst that attaches the fertilized ovum to the uterine wall and serves as a nutritive pathway for the embryo. Also called trophoderm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An external epiblastic layer that does not enter into the formation of the embryo, but does take an active part in nutritional processes intended for it; the blastocystic ectoderm.
Wiktionary
- n. cytology The membrane of cells that forms the wall of a blastocyst during early pregnancy, providing nutrients to the embryo and later developing into part of the placenta.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall
Etymologies
- tropho- + -blast (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A typical day-5 human embryo consists of 200-250 cells, most of which comprise the trophoblast, which is the outermost layer of the blastocyst.”
“In a healthy pregnancy, cells that come from the embryo's placenta-called trophoblast cells-move into the walls of the uterus and help to open up maternal arteries, thereby increasing the available blood and nutrient supply.”
“Perhaps they're hoping the the terms "trophoblast", "blastocoel", and "blastocyst" will disguise the fact that we're talking about a human being?”
“In most of these diseases, the diagnosis can be made by genetic analysis of cultured trophoblast cells derived from CVS.”
“Johnson MP, Childs MD, Isada NB, Koppitch III GC, Evans MI: Trisomy 16 CVS and viable pregnancy: Lethal aneuploidy compartmentalized to the trophoblast in two otherwise normal pregnancies.”
“In a 2009 French study at the University of Caen, scientists discovered that glyphosate can kill the cells in the outer layer of the human placenta (the trophoblast membrane), which in turn can kill the placenta.”
“Researchers analyzed trophoblast cells from the placenta from 40 pregnant women about to undergo surgery for ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or abortion.”
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“Caveat: Technical difficulties plus contamination of some uterine samples prevented collection of trophoblast cells from every patient.”
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“The derivation of HESC cultures requires the removal of the trophoblast.”
“That there is some intercellular coordination in the zygote is revealed by the fact that the development of the early embryo requires that some cells become part of the trophoblast while others become part of the inner cell mass.”
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bilby "The cells of the morula are at first closely aggregated, but soon they become arranged into an outer or peripheral layer, the trophoblast, which does not contribute to the formation of the embryo proper, and an inner cell-mass, from which the embryo is developed."
- Henry Gray, 'Anatomy of the Human Body', 1918. Sep 20, 2009