decidua

1. 1.

   the epithelial tissue of the endometrium

   Broaderepithelium

Other forms of decidua

plural

deciduae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decidua

What does decidua mean?

decidua means "the epithelial tissue of the endometrium".

How many syllables are in decidua?

decidua has 4 syllables: de-ci-du-a. The stress falls on "ci".

Is decidua a common word?

decidua is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.