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The two structures that are connected by the umbilical cord are the embryo and the placenta. The umbilical cord is also known as the navel string or birth cord.
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What is the structure of an umbilical cord?
The umbilical cord is a tough membrane that covers the two arteries (the umbilical arteries) and one vein (the umbilical vein) that are coated in Wharton's jelly. Wharton's jelly is a gelatinous substance within the umbilical cord. It is derived from extra-embryonic mesoderm.
What are two associated structures in the placenta?
umbilical cord and fetus
What is the tube which attaches the embryo to the placenta called?
The umbilical cord. The umbilical cord has the function of sending blood to the baby and returning blood from the baby after it has been utilized. There are two arteries in the umbilical cord that do this.
What two substances pass from the mother to the fetus?
Through the umbilical cord. The waste products in the blood stream of the fetus is passed into the blood stream of the mother. Then, she, ahem, gets rid of the waste herself for the both of them. Through the umbilical cord and placenta.
Two large branches located near the tail lead into the umbilical cord?
umbilical arteries
What tube carriers blood oxygen and nutrients from the placenta to the developing child?
The umbilical cord is made up of three blood vessels: two smaller arteries which carry blood to the placenta and a larger vein which returns blood to the fetus.
Is it true you can feel the umbilical cord above your bellybutton when pregnant?
I have been pregnant two times and have yet to feel the umbilical cord above my belly button.
What is the nature of an artery in the umbilical cord of a fetus?
The nature of an artery in the umbilical cord is to take waste products from the baby. It is then sent back to the placenta by two veins.
What is the umbilical region?
I believe the question should have been " What is the umbilical region? If that was the question , then with reference to mammals-- The umbilical region is a small area of of about two inches' radius with the centre at the centre of the navel. Navel is another term for the umbilicus. The umbilicus represents the point at which the umbilical cord of placental mammals was connected to the mother'womb before birth.
The umbilical cord is formed by the?
umbilical cord contains two arteries and one vein. umbilican vein carries pure blood to the fetal heart and umbilical arteries carry impure blood to the placenta of the mother.
Name the major mammalian characteristics that are exhibited by the fetal pig?
two are mammary papilla and umbilical cord
Four vessel umbilical cord?
You only have two arteries and one vein.
