Basal plate (placenta)

Basal plate
Details
Latin Lamina basalis
Carnegie stage 13
Identifiers
Gray's p.63
Dorlands
/Elsevier
p_23/12645521
Anatomical terminology

During pregnancy changes in the placenta involve the disappearance of the greater portion of the stratum compactum, but the deeper part of this layer persists and is condensed to form what is known as the basal plate. Between this plate and the uterine muscular fibres are the stratum spongiosum and the boundary layer; through these and the basal plate the uterine arteries and veins pass to and from the intervillous space.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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