amnion

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Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.nɪ.ɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.ni.ɑːn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

amnion (plural amnions or amnia)

1. (anatomy) The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.

   Synonym: (archaic) amnios

   Near-synonym: amniotic sac

   • 2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     He never seemed to mind, and after a while, she no longer felt self-conscious about languishing in the amnion of his office.

Coordinate terms

• chorion, chorio-
• placenta, placento-

Derived terms

• amnio- (and derivatives therefrom)
• amniocentesis
• amnionic
• amniote
• amniotic
• oligoamnios
• subamnion

Translations

a fetal membrane of reptiles, birds, and mammals — see also amniotic sac

Arabic: سَلى m (salan), أَمْنِيُون m (ʔamniyūn) Armenian: ջրաթաղանթ (hy) (ǰratʻaġantʻ), սաղմնապարկ (hy) (saġmnapark), ամնիոն (hy) (amnion) Catalan: amni m Chinese: Cantonese: 羊膜 (joeng4 mok6-2) Mandarin: 羊膜 (zh) (yángmó) Czech: amnion m Dutch: amnion (nl) n Esperanto: amnio Finnish: vesikalvo (fi) French: amnios (fr) m German: Amnion (de) n, Schafhaut (de) f Greek: Ancient: ἀμνίον n (amníon) Hebrew: שָׁפִיר (he) m (shafír) Hungarian: magzatburok (hu) Ido: amniono (io) Indonesian: amnion (id) Irish: aimnín m Italian: amnio (it) m Japanese: 羊膜 (ja) (ようまく, yōmaku) Korean: 양막 (yangmak) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: serav (ku) f, amniyon f Maori: kahukahu Persian: مشیمیه (fa) (mašīmiye), مشیمه (fa) (mašīme), آتون (ātun) Polish: owodnia f, amnion (pl) m Portuguese: âmnio m Romanian: amnios (ro) n Russian: амнио́н (ru) m (amnión) Slovak: amnión m Spanish: amnios (es) m Tamil: பனிக்குடம் (ta) (paṉikkuṭam), பன்னீர்க்குடம் (ta) (paṉṉīrkkuṭam) Vietnamese: màng ối

Anagrams

• I'm 'onna, Manion, Minoan, moanin', nomina, on main

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon, “bowl in which the blood of victims was caught”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.ni.ɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: am‧ni‧on

Noun

amnion n (plural amionen, diminutive amnionnetje n)

1. amnion

   Synonym: schaapsvlies

Esperanto

Noun

amnion

1. accusative singular of amnio

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch amnion, from Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon, “bowl in which the blood of victims was caught”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /amˈnion/ [amˈni.ɔn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: am‧ni‧on

Noun

amnion

1. (anatomy) amnion

Related terms

• amnionitis
• amniotik
• amniotomi

Further reading

• “amnion”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016