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Pleuropericardial :: Pleuropericardial (a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Parapleurae :: Parapleurae (pl. ) of Parapleur.

Isopleura :: Isopleura (n. pl.) A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal..

Tegmen :: Tegmen (n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura..

Pleurapophyses :: Pleurapophyses (pl. ) of Pleurapophysi.

Pleuric :: Pleuric (a.) Pleural.

Empyema :: Empyema (n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura..

Ischium :: Ischium (n.) One of the pleurae of insects.

Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..

Podostomata :: Podostomata (n. pl.) An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.

Neomenoidea :: Neomenoidea (n. pl.) A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura..

Pleurapophysis :: Pleurapophysis (n.) One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib..

Placophora :: Placophora (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura..

Solenogastra :: Solenogastra (n. pl.) An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Pleural :: Pleural (a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax..

Pectoriloquy :: Pectoriloquy (n.) The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity..

Pleuroperitoneum :: Pleuroperitoneum (n.) The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided..

Rhabdopleura :: Rhabdopleura (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata.

Pleurae :: Pleurae (pl. ) of Pleur.

Subpodophyllous :: Subpleural (a.) Situated under the pleural membrane.

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