Assertion: corpus luteum | /r/CapableOf | stimulate maternal response
Facets:
value: in certain species
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the first place it has the property of producing a special histological state of the endometrium, progestational proliferation, by which the nutrition and implantation of the early embryo is supported ; and in certain species in which the maternal tissues contribute largely to the placenta, or in which an elaborate decidua is developed, the corpus luteum stimulates this maternal response.