Medical Term:
watershed
Pronunciation: wah′tĕr-shed
Definition:
- The area of marginal blood flow at the extreme periphery of a vascular bed.
- Slopes in the abdominal cavity, formed by projections of the lumbar vertebrae and the pelvic brim, that determine the direction in which a free effusion gravitates when the body is supine.
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
