See Also: phrenicomediastinal recess(medicine)
recess(medicine)
recess(dictionary)
retrocaecal recess(medicine)
posterior recess(medicine)
pontocerebellar recess(medicine)
pneumatoenteric recess(medicine)
piriform recess(medicine)
recess 2, verb(dictionary)
pineal recess(medicine)

Pygmalion (iou) and phrenicomediastinal recess (medicine)


Pygmalion (iou)



Pygmalion adverb. joc. euphem. M20.
[A play by G. B. Shaw (1856-1950) which caused a sensation when first produced in 1914 because it contained the phr. 'not bloody likely'.]
= BLOODY adverb. Only in not Pygmalion likely.

phrenicomediastinal recess (medicine)


phrenicomediastinal recess


The recess of the pleural cavity between the diaphragm and the mediastinum.

Synonym: recessus phrenicomediastinalis.