Mammal
Of vertebrate and Mammalia. May also be referred to as mammalian.
Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk.
This concept's ID is @1~9486
Fetal Membrane
- chorion
The outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds...
- amnion
Thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles,...
- allantois
The vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut...
Also contains
- placental
Mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials.
- female mammal
Animals that nourish their young with milk.
- coat
Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal.
- fossorial mammal
A burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging.
- metatherian
Primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas.
- tusker
Any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar).
- hair
Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal...
- prototherian
Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea.
- Amniota
Higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during developmen...
- biauriculate heart
A heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles.