amniotic

Definitions

Examples

• No element of Caul Baby better illustrates Jerkins’ ability to spin magic out of the mundane than the titular caul, the amniotic membrane that surrounds a baby in the womb.

• Chronic uncertainty surrounds children living under occupation like amniotic fluid.

• In some instances amniotic fluid stained with blood escapes.

• In yet others it is partly derived from endoderm and partly from ectoderm (primitive streak of amniotic Vertebrates).

• In Amniotic animals the base of the skull appears bent in on the abdominal side, so that the head sinks upon the breast.

• The constant presence of nutritive substances in the amniotic fluid during the whole period of gestation.

• Intra-uterine amputation by constriction of amniotic bands sometimes occurs (Figs. 168, 169).