pleuro-peritoneal, -æal, a. Anat.
(ˌplʊərəʊpɛrɪtəʊˈniːəl)
[f. pleuro- + peritoneal, or f. next + -al1.]
Of or belonging at once to the pleuræ and the peritoneum, or the pleuro-peritoneum.
| 1872 Mivart Elem. Anat. vi. 218 The heart and the roots of the great vessels which proceed from it are..placed within the inner wall of this pleuro-peritoneal cavity. 1875 Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1877) 165 As this cavity answers to those of the pleuræ and of the peritoneum in the higher animals, it is termed the pleuroperitoneal cavity; and the soft smooth membrane which lines it and covers the contained viscera is the pleuroperitoneal membrane. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 152 A general chronic inflammation with thickening of the whole pleuro-peritoneal cavity. |