Pleura Sentence Examples

Exposure to blue or brown asbestos dust can cause mesothelioma, a tumor of the pleura, which is the lining of the lung.

In the thorax the pronotum and prosternum are closely associated with the mesothorax, but the pleura of the prothorax are usually shifted far forwards, so that the forelegs are inserted just behind the head.

They produce a lubricating fluid that fills the gap between the two pleura.

This head-shield is succeeded by a varying number of free segments, each of which consists of a medium convex tergal piece and a pair of arched lateral plates, the pleura, of which there is one on each side.

The terga and pleura of each individual segment overlap those of the segment that serially succeeds it.

The right surface of the liver is covered with peritoneum and is in contact with the diaphragm, outside which are the pleura and lower ribs.

Even published studies are now agreeing that in the pleura they find more chrysotile, mainly short fibers, than other types of asbestos.

You can also treat pleural effusion by operating to remove the pleura (a pleurectomy ). This is called a pleurectomy.

On chest x-rays the signs are often not very definite and may possibly only show a slight thickening of the pleura.

The subclavian vein also lies close to the dome of the pleura, damage to which can cause a pneumothorax.

In the treatment of effusions into the pleura and, though with less advantage, of pericardial effusions, direct mechanical interference was practised by one physician and another, till these means of attaining rapid and complete cure took their places as indispensable, and were extended from thoracic diseases to those of the abdominal and other inner parts formerly beyond the reach of direct therapeutics.

A serosa is a serous (fluid-producing) membrane that can be found inside the abdominal cavity (peritoneum), around the lungs (pleura), around the heart (pericardium), and inside the joints (synovium).

Pleuritis-Inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs.