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adj. - Relating to or characterized by a vascular fetal membrane of reptiles, birds, or mammals arising as a pouch or sac from the hindgut

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  • The allantoic fluids in which the flu vaccine is grown, contain a white crystalline substance called allantoin.
  • I am sorry to have to tell you that it is grown in an embryonic chicken or in the allantoic fluids that surround it in the egg.
  • Dollo followed up this suggestion, which had in the meantime been strengthened by Hill's discovery of a true allantoic placenta in
  • Cenogenetic processes, on the other hand, include such phenomena as the formation of yolk and the embryonic membranes, the temporary allantoic circulation, the navel,...
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