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pararectal fossa

A peritoneal depression on either side of the rectum formed by peritoneal folds passing from the posterolateral pelvic wall to the central pelvic viscera. This fossa is a lateral extension of the rectovesical pouch in male or the rectouterine pouch in female. Function: -> Permits the rectum to distend as it fills with feces

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fossa

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
  2. Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore & AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 1999.

Component-of

perineum