(powch)
A pocket or sac.
SEE: Pharyngeal pouch.
SEE: Broca, Pierre-Paul
SEE: Colostomy bag
SEE: Douglas cul-de-sac.
SEE: Hepatorenal recess.
Koch pouch
SEE: Kock pouch
A blind pouch of mucosa extending from the ventricle of the larynx.
Any of a series of five pairs of entodermal outpocketings that develop in lateral walls of the pharynx of the embryo.
SYN: SEE: branchial pouch
SEE: Prussak, Alexander
SEE: Rathke pouch
SEE: Douglas cul-de-sac.
A fold of peritoneum that in males extends inferiorly between the bladder and rectum.
SEE: Seessel pouch
A downward extension of the peritoneal cavity located between the bladder and uterus.
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