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What is a decidua?

What is a decidua? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy
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We selected principally trophoblastic placental tissue with no signs of calcification, avoiding the decidua basalis and corionic plate.
Although the exact etiology for placenta accreta and increta is not known, it is thought that damage to the decidua basalis may lead to abnormal placentation and its sequelae.
There were large amounts of polarizable foreign body material contained within the membranes and maternal decidua, without associated inflammation or tissue reaction.
This ovum, though probably not more than thirteen days old, was completely enclosed by a decidua reflexa.
Folds of this nature, which are specially developed in Man and Apes, are known as a decidua reflexa.
The chorion frondosum, together with the decidua serotina, gives rise to the placenta.

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