stratum compactum

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The superficial layer of decidual tissue in the pregnant uterus.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

My eye catches the calm and smooth stratum of gray clouds that approach from the south.
After War: Anger, Panic, and Sometimes Peace|Benjamin Tupper|June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But their young deputies and ministerial director generals tended to be from this recently-returned, Western-educated stratum.
A Ray of Light in Islamist Gloom|Benny Morris|July 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
People who do well do not deserve what they have gotten - they got it because they were born into the right social stratum.
Now All Americans Are Losing Ground|David Frum|February 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
They were born into the wrong social stratum, or were handicapped by personal weaknesses that were not their fault.
Now All Americans Are Losing Ground|David Frum|February 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST

And lifting them carefully one off the other, he took out a deal box that had stood in the lowest stratum.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
It is only a lower stratum, but still it is a part of terra firma, and on no account is it to be ignored.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
They reached a depth in his nature which had been long untouched; a stratum, so to speak, which lay far beneath the surface.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
I thought that the frozen surface of the American woman thawed on the stratum soubrette.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Reddish, very quartzose sandstone; from a stratum which dips to the south-east, at an angle of about ten or fifteen degrees.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King