he·mo·troph (h  m -tr f , -tr f)n. The nutritive materials supplied to the embryo through the placenta from the maternal bloodstream. |
hemotroph
[hē′mətrof]
the total nutritive substances supplied to the embryo from the maternal circulation after the development of the placenta. Also spelled hemotrophe. Also called hemotrophic nutrition. Compare embryotroph. hemotrophic, adj.
hemotroph
the sum total of the nutritive material from the circulating blood of the maternal body, utilized by the early embryo. It is absorbed directly from the maternal blood by the allantochorion or vitellochorion.
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