- pretracheal space
- The area in front of the trachea (windpipe).
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pretracheal space
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pretracheal space — anterior visceral s … Medical dictionary
visceral space anterior — a potential space in the neck surrounded by the pretracheal layer of the deep cervical fascia; it contains the thyroid gland, the esophagus, and the trachea. Called also pretracheal s … Medical dictionary
visceral space — a potential space between the pretracheal fascia and the prevertebral fascia, extending from the hyoid bone to the mediastinum and containing the lower pharynx, larynx, trachea, esophagus, thyroid, great vessels, and areolar tissue. It is… … Medical dictionary
retrovisceral space — a subdivision of the spatium retropharyngeum lying between the pretracheal and prevertebral layers of the deep cervical fascia. Called also retropharyngeal s … Medical dictionary
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Fascia — A flat band of tissue below the skin that covers underlying tissues and separates different layers of tissue. Fascia encloses muscles. Inflammation of the fascia is referred to as fasciitis. Fascia is the Latin word for band or bandage. * * * A… … Medical dictionary
layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
Deep cervical fascia — Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra. Showing the arrangement of the fascia coli. Gray s subject #111 388 … Wikipedia
lamina pretrachealis fasciae cervicalis — [TA] pretracheal layer of cervical fascia: the layer of deep cervical fascia that is anterior to the trachea and surrounds the thyroid gland; see also anterior visceral space. Called also pretracheal fascia and middle layer of deep cervical… … Medical dictionary
