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pleuroperitoneum

CIDE DICTIONARY

pleuroperitoneumn. [Pleuro- + peritoneum.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]
    " Peritoneum is now often used in the sense of pleuroperitoneum, the pleuræ being regarded as a part of the peritoneum, when the body cavity is undivided."  [1913 Webster]

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