Page:Anatomy of the Human Body (1918).djvu/57

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE FETAL MEMBRANES AND THE PLACENTA—57

The Umbilical Cord and Body-stalk.—The umbilical cord (Fig. 28) attaches the fetus to the placenta; its length at full time, as a rule, is about equal to the