Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In embryology, the membrane which connects the developing heart with the anterior body-wall on the ventral side and with the intestine on the dorsal side.

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Examples

  • (ventral) plate (usually called the mesocardium anterius and posterius in man, Figure 2.379 uhg).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • The aorta and pulmonary artery are enclosed in one tube, the arterial mesocardium.

    V. Angiology. 4a. The Pericardium 1918

  • The superior and inferior venæ cavæ and the four pulmonary veins are enclosed in a second tube, the venous mesocardium, the attachment of which to the parietal layer presents the shape of an inverted U.

    V. Angiology. 4a. The Pericardium 1918

  • For a short time it is still connected with the former by the thin plate of the mesocardium.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • The mesocardium divides two lateral cavities, Remak's "neck-cavities" (Figure 2.379 hh).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • A thin membrane, standing vertically in the middle plane, the mesocardium, connects the ventral wall of the head-gut with the lower head-wall.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • As the cardiac tube extends and detaches from the gut-wall, it divides the mesocardium into an upper (dorsal) and lower

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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