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to the "Frontiers in Bioscience"

Implantation in endometrium and conceptus

When viewed about day 14 after fertilization, the site of implantation appears as a closing plug as illustrated in the top figure. Around this site, the decidua capsularis leads to a bulge.

The blastocyst at this time is made of two layers epiblast and hypoblast. Therefore, it is called the "bilaminar embryonic disc"