. A study of the causes underlying the origin of human monsters : third contribution to the study of the pathology of human embryos . the umbilical whole ovum was cut into serial sections. The chorion and villi are apparently normal in shape andstructure, being also very rich in blood-vessels which are filledwith embryos blood. The villi are bathed in mothers bloodand covered with an active syncytium. The decidua is some-what infiltrated with leucocytes, but there are no abscesses. The front end of the amnion is torn and its free edge embryo are imbedded in reticular magma,
. A study of the causes underlying the origin of human monsters : third contribution to the study of the pathology of human embryos . the umbilical whole ovum was cut into serial sections. The chorion and villi are apparently normal in shape andstructure, being also very rich in blood-vessels which are filledwith embryos blood. The villi are bathed in mothers bloodand covered with an active syncytium. The decidua is some-what infiltrated with leucocytes, but there are no abscesses. The front end of the amnion is torn and its free edge embryo are imbedded in reticular magma, indicating that No. i.] ORIGIN OF HUMAN MONSTERS. 247 the injury took place before the abortion. The general shapeof the embryo and its degree of development are practicallynormal. The heart is well formed and it, with the blood-vessels, is filled with blood. The alimentary canal, brain,spinal cord, otic and eye. vesicles, myotomes and branchialarches are much like embryo No. 12, which is practically anormal embryo of the beginning of the second week. Theseptum transversum is well marked and the thyroid gland isjust Fig. 250a.—Ovum, opened to show the embryonic mass, within thedecidua. X about 2 diameters.
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