mesogastrium
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Origin of mesogastrium
1850–55; < New Latin, equivalent to meso- meso- + Greek gastr-, stem of gastḗr belly + New Latin -ium -ium
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Albrecht mentions a case shown at a meeting of the Vienna Medical Society of a very large number of spleens found in the mesogastrium, peritoneum, on the mesentery and transverse mesocolon, in Douglas' pouch, etc.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
According to the review of this article, Toldt explains the case by assuming that other parts of the celomic epithelium, besides that of the mesogastrium, are capable of forming splenic tissue.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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