?u???? : , "little lamb", a diminutive of ?u??? : , "lamb", and cognate with the English verb ', "to bring forth young (usually lambs)". However, an alternative etymology references an ancient Greek goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, worshipped in Amnisos (on the island of Crete) and nicknamed ?u???? (Amnias).

In humans

In the human embryo, the earliest stages of the formation of the amnion have not been observed; in the youngest embryo that has been

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