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Reflection of window on chorion

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Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata / auctore Gulielmo Hunter ... The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures / by William Hunter (Birmingham, 1774) Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University, Evanston.

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Reflection of an anatomy theater’s window in the chorion (outermost membrane) covering a fetus from William Hunter’s Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata / auctore Gulielmo Hunter ... The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures. Birmingham: 1774. After drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk (Dutch, ca.1750—1789). Engraving. Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

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