Word Meanings - MESORCHIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.

Related words: (words related to MESORCHIUM)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SCROTAL
  Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.
• TESTIS
  A testicle.
• PERITONEUM
  The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac.
• DORSAL
  Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• DORSALE
  See N
• HYDROPERITONEUM
  See ASCITES
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• CONCAVITY
  A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
• PREDORSAL
  Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.