Amnio in a sentence as a noun

After a CVS or amnio, the lab will look at the cells under the microscope and look for two copies of each chromosome. If they find three instead, that's a chromosome abnormality.

My mother is a biochemical engineer, and when she was pregnant with me she was so frustrated by the doctor's dissembling over her amnio, she grabbed the test results out of his hands and read them for herself. I'm regularly frustrated with the lack of doctors' honesty.

Amnio definitions

noun

(pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities

See also: amniocentesis