pleuroperitoneal fold/membrane

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Introduction

A tissue fold jutting into the caudal portion of the embryonic pericardioperitoneal canal.

  • develops into the dorsal portion of the diaphragm
  • formed by the lungs growing caudally & the liver expanding cranially

More general terms

References

  1. ↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
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