(thing) by BioTech Sun Aug 11 2002 at 20:55:19

A hemomonochorial placenta is a type of hemochorial placenta (placenta where the chorion, or membrane enclosing the fetus, comes in direct contact with the mother's blood) where a single layer of trophoblast tissue separates the mother's blood from the blood capillaries of the fetus.

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