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MESENTERY [2 records]

Record 1 2005-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Digestive Tract
  • Morphology and General Physiology
CONT

Free space ... comes to be enclosed by ... the peritoneum [vertical portions of this membrane represent the mesentery, which suspend the alimentary tract from the body wall.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil digestif
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
CONT

L'intestin grêle occupe la cavité abdominale et forme plusieurs anses qui sont fixées à la paroi postérieure de l'abdomen par une lame péritonéale, le mésentère.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aparato digestivo
  • Morfología y fisiología general
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Record 2 2004-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

One of several radially disposed fleshy laminae or sheets of soft tissue that are attached to the inner surface of the oral disk and column wall of a coral polyp, and that partition the internal body cavity by extending inward from the body wall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Une mésentérie est] fixée à la face interne du disque oral [d'un Coralliaire], et à la colonne murale [et] peut s'étendre ou non jusqu'au disque basal d'une part, et d'autre part se souder au stomodaeum [...] ou non [...]

Spanish

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