Mercier's bar

bar (bahr)

1. a structure having greater length than width, and often some degree of rigidity.

2. a heavy wire or wrought or cast metal segment, longer than its width, used to connect parts of a removable partial denture.

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median bar  a fibrotic formation across the neck of the prostate gland, producing obstruction of the urethra.

Mercier's bar  interureteric ridge.

terminal bars  zones of epithelial cell contact, once thought to represent an accumulation of dense cementing substance, but with the electron microscope shown to be a junctional complex.

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Mer·cier's bar (mr-s-z, mr-syz)

n.

See interureteric fold.