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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..

Pleurae :: Pleurae (pl. ) of Pleur.

Pleuras :: Pleuras (pl. ) of Pleur.

Pleurapophyses :: Pleurapophyses (pl. ) of Pleurapophysi.

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

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

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..

Pleuralgia :: Pleuralgia (n.) Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

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..

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

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

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.

Parapleurae :: Parapleurae (pl. ) of Parapleur.

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..

Eudipleura :: Eudipleura (n. pl.) The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves..

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..

Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall..

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

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

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