Abstract
In the two or three decades prior to the first edition of this book much of the basic morphological analysis of implantation and placentation took place so that Marshall (1910) was able to give a fairly detailed account of the early stages of placentation in several species. His account now provides a very interesting historical survey of the subject. Marshall did not separate implantation from placentation, in fact he only used the word implantation when talking of the implantation chamber which had been described by other workers. He mainly refers to attachment and embedding of the blastocyst.
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Finn, C.A. (1994). Implantation. In: Lamming, G.E. (eds) Marshall’s Physiology of Reproduction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1286-4_3
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