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Thoracotomy :: Thoracotomy (n.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

Pleurisy :: Pleurisy (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity..

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

Parapleurae :: Parapleurae (pl. ) of Parapleur.

Pleuro- :: Pleuro- () A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum..

Anisopleura :: Anisopleura (n. pl.) A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed..

Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.

Pleurae :: Pleurae (pl. ) of Pleur.

Lung-grown :: Lung-grown (a.) Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

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

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..

Parapleura :: Parapleura (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) Same as Pleuron.

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

Pleuric :: Pleuric (a.) Pleural.

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

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

Pleuropneumonia :: Pleuropneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle..

Endopleura :: Endopleura (n.) The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

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

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