Membranes formed during avian embryogenesis that protect the embryo and enable nutrition, respiration, and waste storage: yolk sac, amnion, chorion, and allantois; from about one-third of incubation, the allantois fuses with chorion to form the chorioallantois (allantochorion).
Extra-embryonic membranes
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