List of abbreviations
Vocabulary
of micros-
copic
anatomy
specialist terms
explained in
English +
German

Every attempt was made to provide correct information and labelling, however any liability for eventual errors or incompleteness is rejected!

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Editor:
Dr. med.
H. Jastrow


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Overview placenta (Placenta):
Pages with explanations are linked to the text below the images if available! (Labelling is in German)
overview with 2
villi
blood vessels in a villus cytotrophoblast and
syncythiotrophoblast
idem lots of nuclei in a syncythiotro-
phoblast and fibrinoid
syncythio-
trophoblast 1
villus 1 villus 2 villus 3 RER in a syn-
cythiotrophoblast
idem detail mesenchyme cell in the stroma
of a villus
maternal neutrophilic
granulocyte 
Hofbauer cell
(macrophage)
fibrinoid 1 fibrinoid 2 arteriole in a villus detail: Weibel-
Pallade body
syncythiotrophoblast +
multilammellar bodies
detail 1 detail 2
blood-placenta barrier 1 blood-placenta barrier 2 blood-placenta barrier 3 fibroblasts in stroma
of a villus
detail thereof detail 2: widened nuclear
membrane
All images derive from a human newborn placenta.

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