amnion

English

Etymology

From Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.nɪ.ɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.ni.ɑːn/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

amnion (plural amnions or amnia)

1. (anatomy) The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.

   Synonym: (archaic) amnios

   • 2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     He never seemed to mind, and after a while, she no longer felt self-conscious about languishing in the amnion of his office.

Coordinate terms

• chorion, chorio-
• placenta, placento-

Derived terms

• amnio- (and derivatives therefrom)
• amniocentesis
• amnionic
• amniote
• amniotic
• oligoamnios
• subamnion

 

Translations

a fetal membrane of reptiles, birds, and mammals — see also amniotic sac

• Armenian: ջրաթաղանթ (hy) (ǰratʻaġantʻ), սաղմնապարկ (hy) (saġmnapark), ամնիոն (hy) (amnion)
• Catalan: amni m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羊膜 (joeng⁴ mok^6-2)

  Mandarin: 羊膜 (zh) (yángmó)

• Dutch: amnion (nl) n
• Esperanto: amnio
• Finnish: vesikalvo (fi)
• French: amnios (fr) m
• German: Amnion (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀμνίον n (amníon)

• Hebrew: שָׁפִיר (he) m (shafír)
• Hungarian: magzatburok (hu)
• Ido: amniono (io)
• Irish: aimnín m
• Italian: amnio (it) m
• Japanese: 羊膜 (ようまく, yōmaku)
• Korean: 양막 (yangmak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: serav (ku) f, amniyon f

• Maori: kahukahu
• Polish: owodnia f, amnion (pl) m
• Portuguese: âmnio m
• Romanian: amnios (ro) n
• Russian: амнио́н (ru) m (amnión)
• Spanish: amnios (es) m
• Vietnamese: màng ối

Anagrams

• I'm 'onna, Manion, Minoan, moanin', nomina, on main

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon, “bowl in which the blood of victims was caught”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.ni.ɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: am‧ni‧on

Noun

amnion m (uncountable)

1. amnion

   Synonym: schaapsvlies

Esperanto

Noun

amnion

1. accusative singular of amnio

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon). First attested in 1810.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.ɲɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -amɲɔn
• Syllabification: am‧nion

Noun

amnion m inan

1. (anatomy, embryology) amnion (innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended)

   Synonym: owodnia

Declension

Declension of amnion

	singular	plural
nominative	amnion	amniony
genitive	amnionu	amnionów
dative	amnionowi	amnionom
accusative	amnion	amniony
instrumental	amnionem	amnionami
locative	amnionie	amnionach
vocative	amnionie	amniony

Further reading

• amnion in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• amnion in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego