Associations to the word «Decidua»

Wiktionary

DECIDUA, noun. (anatomy) A mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy

Dictionary definition

DECIDUA, noun. The epithelial tissue of the endometrium.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope