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watershed medical definition
noun
- A ridge between two areas that directs drainage to either side.
- The area of marginal blood flow at the extreme periphery of a vascular bed.
- Ridges of the lumbar vertebrae and the pelvic brim formed in the abdominal cavity, which determine the direction in which a free effusion will gravitate when the body is supine.
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