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Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura..

Pleuric :: Pleuric (a.) Pleural.

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

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

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

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

Pleuras :: Pleuras (pl. ) of Pleur.

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..

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..

Pterobranchia :: Pterobranchia (n. pl.) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura..

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

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

Hemoothorax :: Hemoothorax (n.) An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

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.

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

Mediastinum :: Mediastinum (n.) A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels..

Pleura :: Pleura (pl. ) of Pleuro.

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

Pleurae :: Pleurae (pl. ) of Pleur.

Arthropleura :: Arthropleura (n.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

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