Definition of Greater peritoneal sac

1. Noun. The interior of the peritoneum; a potential space between layers of the peritoneum.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Greater Peritoneal Sac

greater horn of hyoid bone
greater knapweed
greater kudu
greater masterwort
greater multangular bone
greater occipital nerve
greater omentum
greater palatine artery
greater palatine canal
greater palatine foramen
greater palatine groove
greater palatine nerve
greater pectoral muscle
greater pelvis
greater peritoneal cavity
greater peritoneal sac (current term)
greater petrosal nerve
greater pichiciego
greater posterior rectus muscle of head
greater prairie chicken
greater psoas muscle
greater rhomboid muscle
greater ring of iris
greater saphenous vein
greater saphenous veins
greater scaup
greater scaups
greater sciatic notch
greater spearwort
greater splanchnic nerve

Literary usage of Greater peritoneal sac

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

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"We see then that this is a closed sac and the parietal layer is continuous with the visceral. This is the cavity of the greater peritoneal sac. ..."

2. Practical Anatomy: An Exposition of the Facts of Gross Anatomy from the by John Clement Heisler (1920)
"303, it will be seen that extravasation or hemorrhage from the anterior wall would take place into the greater peritoneal sac, whereas if the posterior wall ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"... caused by this lesion may give rise to symptoms and signs strongly simulating those produced by a general infection of the greater peritoneal sac. ..."

4. Diseases of the Stomach, Intestines, and Pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"The posterior layer passes downward and backward along the inferior surface to form the greater peritoneal sac. At the neck and on the head anteriorly the ..."

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