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Pleura   Listen
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Pleura  n.  Pl. of Pleuron.






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"Pleura" Quotes from Famous Books



... opening the thorax, the lungs were seen to appearance healthy. Both adhered to the pleura costalis. The pleura lining the diaphragm, and also the pericardium, were finely injected. Fauces inflamed, injected, and ulcerated. From the tonsils oozed ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... the other mammals (but only in these) this coeloma divides, when fully developed, into two different cavities, which are separated by a transverse partition—the muscular diaphragm. The fore or pectoral cavity (pleura-cavity) contains the oesophagus (gullet), heart, and lungs; the hind or peritoneal or abdominal cavity contains the stomach, small and large intestines, liver, pancreas, kidneys, etc. But in the vertebrate embryo, before the diaphragm is developed, the two cavities form a ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel

... in thickness. It is, as is well known, a sort of erectile tissue, of whose functions we are wholly ignorant. It is not confined to this course, but extends to the neck, and, passing through the foramina intervertebralia, fills the intercostal spaces exterior to the pleura. ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various



Words linked to "Pleura" :   visceral pleura, serosa, parietal pleura



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