The most distal part of a chorionic villus. A chorionic terminal villus is a grape-like structure characterized by a high degree of capillarization and highly dilated sinusoids. A terminal villus has less stroma and a discontinuous cytotrophoblast layer, and contains 4–6 fetal capillaries per cross section. It exhibits a diameter ranging from 40 to about 80 μm. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21452443 doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84725-8 ]
Term information
human_reference_atlas