Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
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- noun anatomy Part of the
mesentery found near theappendix and the terminalileum .
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Examples
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Benjamin Zweifach, then a bright young physiologist who had trained with Robert Chambers and had developed a beautiful method for microscopic observation of blood flow in part of the mesentery (the "mesoappendix" area) of the anesthetized rat.
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Intravenous injections of this plasma increased the sensitivity of the small arterioles and pre-capillary sphincters to topically applied epinephrine in the mesoappendix test.
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In brief, the "rat mesoappendix test", conducted by Zweifach and technicians whom he trained, produced evidence by 1944 for two vasoactive factors in circulatory shock.
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As the irreversible stage of circulatory shock developed, VEM activity disappeared from the plasma and a new factor appeared which markedly decreased the sensitivity to epinephrine in the mesoappendix test.
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VDM activity was that involving changes in sensitivity to epinephrine in the rat mesoappendix test.
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