Usually means: Outermost membrane surrounding an embryo.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word chorion:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. chorion: Merriam-Webster
  2. chorion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chorion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chorion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chorion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chorion, chorion: Wordnik
  7. Chorion: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. chorion: Wiktionary
  9. chorion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chorion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. chorion: Dictionary.com
  12. Chorion (company), Chorion (egg), Chorion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Chorion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. chorion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. chorion: Rhymezone
  16. Chorion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. chorion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. chorion: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chorion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. chorion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chorion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. chorion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Chorion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Chorion: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Chorion: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. -chorion, chorion: Medical dictionary
  10. Chorion: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Chorion: HYPP Zoology
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See chorions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chorion)

noun:  (anatomy, biology) The protective and nutritive membrane in higher vertebrates that attaches the fetus to the uterus.
noun:  (biology, entomology) The outer case of an insect egg.
noun:  (botany) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

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