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A layer of cells attaching the fertilized ovum to the uterine wall and supplying nutrition to the embryo trophoblasts.  

A step in the movement of energy through an ecosystem.  

Pertaining to food and nutrition. A term applied to the influence that nerves exert with regard to the healthiness and nourishment of the parts to which they run. When the nerves become diseased or injured, this influence is lost and the muscles waste, while the skin loses its healthy appearance and is liable to break…

A sexual variance in which three people participate in a series of sexual activities. A sexual relationship involving three individuals, which can consist of either two women and one man, or one woman and two men, considered atypical.  

Pertaining to a pulley. Referring to a ring in a bone. Functioning like or related to a pulley; in reference to the trochlear nerve associated with the movement of the eyeball.  

Either of the two bony prominences developed from independent centers near the upper extremity of the femur below the femoral neck. The greater and the lesser. Two bony lumps on either side of the top end of the femur where muscles are attached. One of two bony projections (the greater trochanter and the lesser trochanter)…

A triglyceride of stearic acid. Triacylglyceride having three stearic acids esterified to the glycerol backbone.  

A group of three consecutive DNA nucleotides containing information for a specific amino acid in polypeptide synthesis. One of three babies born to a mother at the same time. Any of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy.  

Paralysis involving three appendages, paraplegia; quadriplegia. Hemiplegia with paralysis of one limb on the other side of the body. Paralysis affecting one arm and one leg on the same side of the body, along with paralysis of either the arm or the leg on the opposite side.  

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.