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Pericardium   Listen
noun
Pericardium  n.  (Anat.) 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 inner layer, and is called the parietal pericardium. At the base of the heart the two layers are continuous, and form a narrow closed cavity filled with fluid, in which the pulsations of the heart cause little friction.






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... formed on inflamed membranes, like those of the kidnies above described, by the too hasty absorption of the thinner and saline parts of the mucus. Similar concretions have been produced in the lungs, and even in the pericardium; and it is probable, that the ossification, as it is called, of the minute arteries, which is said to attend old age, and to precede some mortifications of the extremities, may be a process ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



Words linked to "Pericardium" :   serous membrane, parietal pericardium, visceral pericardium, serosa, pericardial



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