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Definition of Pericardium

1. Noun. A serous membrane with two layers that surrounds the heart.

Definition of Pericardium

1. n. The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

Definition of Pericardium

1. Noun. (anatomy cardiology) A serous membrane that surrounds the heart allowing it to contract. ¹

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Definition of Pericardium

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Medical Definition of Pericardium

1. A double membranous sac which envelops and protects the heart. The layer in contact with the heart is referred to as the visceral layer, the outer layer in contact with surrounding organs is the parietal pericardium. In between the two layers is the pericardial space. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Pericardium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"Surgical Intervention in Traumatisms of the Heart and pericardium. ... He finds that the pericardium and heart are not regions where surgical intervention ..."

2. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie, James Wardrop (1833)
"OF THE pericardium. The pericardium Cartilaginous, and Sony. A PORTION of the pericardium has in some instances been observed to be converted into Cartilage ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... this isolation of the pericardium we have noted already in Gastropods and Cephalopods. A good case for the examination of the question as to whether ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"Structure of the pericardium.—Although the pericardium is usually described as a ... The inner sac, or serous pericardium, is composed of a delicate serous ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"He also says : " In children adhesions of the pericardium constitute one of the most ... Here \ve have adherent pericardium referred to both as a cause of ..."

6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"A bent probe is passed within the pericardium from ... hich may indicate the place where the large undivided sac of the pericardium is folded ..."

7. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"The pericardium should now be cleaned. In removing the loose areolar tissue from its anterior surface two ligamentous bands which connect it to the ..."

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