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• This Page relates to samples of normal Human Uterine endometrium during Menstrual cycle.
• Samples taken by dilatation and curettage.
• Images are taken from the teaching posters used in the Embryology Practical Classes, School of Anatomy.
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Day 23-28	Late Secretory, premenstrual
Late Secretory- Premenstrual The glands are now wide, tortuous and saccular. Spiral arteries begin contracting, capillary beds they supply in the stroma begin to seeping blood into the endometrium which then into the uterine cavity at menses.