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Pericardium

noun
(pl. pericardia)
1.
A serous membrane with two layers that surrounds the heart.



Related searches:
parietal pericardium
visceral pericardium


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"Pericardium" Quotes from Famous Books



... dipsomania (sottishness by the social salt of the earth), are simply diseases that should be treated with pills and powders instead of with penitentiaries and whipping-posts. Now if a man will steal a saw-mill and go back after the site simply because his pericardium is out of plumb or his liver has gone into politics; will nurse a juicy old jag until it develops into a combined museum and menagerie, because his circulation has slipped an eccentric or his stomach got out of its natural orbit, I submit, in all seriousness that he might be physically incapacitated ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


Words linked to "Pericardium" :   serous membrane, pericardial, epicardium, serosa


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