Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology and anatomy, of or relating to the pleura and the peritoneum, or the general body-cavity or perivisceral cavity of a vertebrate animal when it is not divided by a partition (diaphragm) into a pleural or thoracic and a peritoneal or abdominal cavity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.
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- adjective Relating to the
pleuroperitoneum .
Etymologies
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pleuro- + peritoneal
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Examples
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The upper arrow is in the pleuroperitoneal opening, the lower in the pleuropericardial.
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The upper arrow is in the pleuroperitoneal opening, the lower in the pleuropericardial.
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As a rule, it is still briefly called the coeloma; formerly it was known in anatomy as the pleuroperitoneal cavity.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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