Word Meanings - PLEUROPERITONEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.
Related words: (words related to PLEUROPERITONEAL)
- PERITONEAL
Of or pertaining to the peritoneum. - PLEUROPERITONEUM
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. Note: Peritoneum - 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 - 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. - SUBPERITONEAL
Situated under the peritoneal membrane. - PLEUROPERITONEAL
Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum. - 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