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palmate folds (medicine)


palmate folds


The two longitudinal ridges, anterior and posterior, in the mucous membrane lining the cervix uteri, from which numerous secondary folds, or rugae, branch off.

Synonym: plicae palmatae, arbor vitae uteri, lyra uterina.