Word Meanings - PLEUROPERICARDIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

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• PLEURAPOPHYSIS
  One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PLEURA
  pl. of Pleuron.
• PERICARDIUM
  The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart. Note: The inner layer is closely adherent to the outer surface of the heart, and is called the cardiac pericardium. The outer layer loosely incloses the heart and the adherent
• PLEURAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.
• PLEURALGIA
  Pain in the side or region of the ribs.
• EPIPLEURAL
  Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.
• SUBPLEURAL
  Situated under the pleural membrane.
• ARTHROPLEURA
  The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.
• ENDOPLEURA
  The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
• RHABDOPLEURA
  A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
• ANISOPLEURA
  A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.
• EUDIPLEURA
  The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. Syd. Soc. Lex.
• PARAPLEURA
  A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• ISOPLEURA
  A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal. Note: The intestine terminates at the posterior end of the body, and the gills and circulatory and reproductive organs are paired. It includes the