Figure 10. Arrows point to the few maternal neutrophils that have exited maternal decidual capillaries in response to amniotic fluid cytokine gradients. The amniotic fluid space would be at the top of this picture, and the arrows also reflect the direction of neutrophil margination. This pattern can be called "amniotrophic"; I generally use the term "acute intraamniotic infection" to apply to this overall pattern of inflammatory response.