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fold; plica

A ridge or margin apparently formed by the doubling back of a lamina.

Specific

aryepiglottic fold (arytenoepiglottidean fold) axillary fold caval fold iliocecal fold; Treves fossa; plica iliocecalis interureteric crest/fold; bar of bladder; ureteric fold; Mercier bar; plica ureterica; torus uretericus lateral glossoepiglottic/pharyngoepiglottic fold lateral umbilical fold; plica umbricalis lateralis; epigastric fascia malleolar fold - anterior/posterior medial umbilical fold; plica umbilicalis medialis; plica hypogastrica median umbilical fold; plica urachi peritoneal fold pleuroperitoneal fold/membrane rectouterine fold; plica rectouterina; Douglas fold; sacrouterine fold sacrogenital fold salpingopharyngeal fold semilunar fold sublingual fold synovial fold tonsillar/amygdaloid fossa (tonsillar bed) transverse folds of rectum; plicae recti; rectal valves (Houston folds, Kohlrausch folds) transverse palatine fold; ruga palatina; transverse palatine ridge transverse vesical fold; plica vesicalis transversa triangular fold

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.