Nitabuch zone
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Nitabuch layer (stria zone) — Ni·ta·buch layer (stria, zone) (neґtah book) [Raissa Nitabuch, German physician, 19th century] see under layer … Medical dictionary
Nitabuch layer — an interrupted sheet of fibrinoid in the placenta at the junction of trophoblast and decidua; called also Nitabuch stria or zone … Medical dictionary
layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
membrane — 1. A thin sheet or layer of pliable tissue, serving as a covering or envelope of a part, as the lining of a cavity, as a partition or septum, or to connect two structures. SYN: membrana [TA]. 2. SYN: biomembrane. [L. membrana, a skin or m … Medical dictionary
