The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

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These cells around the outside form the interface, the placenta, where the maternal blood circulation meets the embryonic circulation and nutrients are passed back and forth that way in a very highly regulated and important way.

外层的细胞形成接触面,即胎盘,是母血与胎血,进行血液交换,及营养物质交换的场所,整个过程高度有序并且非常重要

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In "Maternal Caress," a few simple lines express the deep love of a mother for her child.

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Its carved visage had become -- solely through its loss -- a rare totem of maternal love, a saint's venerated bone.

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The son and grandson of immigrants (his father was Hungarian, his maternal grandfather a Jew from Salonica), he advocated affirmative action to build ladders out of the banlieues.

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The Triolet that can be pieced together from fragments of interviews and letters is less offputting: what comes across is a maternal, if at times weary, devotion to a fractious, emotionally insecure husband.

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