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What are the two main parts of a placenta?
Fetal placenta
Maternal placenta
Of the two main parts of the placenta, which layers degenerates?
Maternal placenta
What are the 3 layers that compose the fetal placenta?
Endothelium of allantoic vessels
Connective tissue (somatic mesoderm of chorion+splanchnopleure of allantois)
Epithelium composed of chorionic ectoderm
What are the 3 layers that compose the maternal placenta?
Epithelium of endometrium
Connective tissue endometrium
Endothelium of uterine blood vessels
You mainly categorize placenta by what characteristics? (3)
-Number of layers between fetal and maternal blood
-Shape and distribution of attachment sites between fetal chorion and maternal endometrium
-Shedding of decidua
Based on the category of number of layers between fetal and maternal blood, what are the 4 types of a placenta?
Epitheliochorial
Syndesmochorial
Endotheliochorial
Hemochorial
Of the 4 types of placenta based on the category of number of layers between fetal and maternal blood, what has all 6 layers intact at full term and expulsion?
Epitheliochorial
Of the 4 types of placenta based on the category of number of layers between fetal and maternal blood, what has only 5 layers intact at full term and expulsion?
Snydesmochorial
What layer is missing in syndesmochorial type of placenta?
Epithelium of endometrium
Of the 4 types of placenta based on the category of number of layers between fetal and maternal blood, what has only 4 layers intact at full term and expulsion?
Endotheliochorial
What 2 layers are missing in endotheliochorial type of placenta?
Epithelium of endometrium
Connective tissue endometrium
Of the 4 types of placenta based on the category of number of layers between fetal and maternal blood, what has only the 3 layers of fetal layers intact at full term and expulsion?
Hemochorial
Based on the category of shape and distribution of attachment sites between fetal chorion and maternal endometrium, what are the different types of placenta? (4) CDDZ
Cotyledonary
Diffuse
Discoid
Zonary
Based on the category of shedding decidua, what are the different types of placenta? (2) DN
Deciduate
Non-deciduate
This is the modified lining of the uterus that forms each month in preparation for pregnancy. When there is no fertilized egg, this is also shed.
Decidua