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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A serous membrane, representing both pleura and peritoneum, which lines a pleuroperitoneal cavity, as in vertebrates below mammals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
pleural andperitoneal membranes , or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the enclosedviscera ; theperitoneum ; used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.
Etymologies
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pleuro- + peritoneum
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