Pleuron sentence example
pleuron
- In early legend Old Aetolia, with its cities of Pleuron and Calydon, figures prominently.
- A dorsal and a ventral plate are often distinguished, known respectively as the tergum and the sternum, and the tergum may overhang the insertion of the limb on each side as a free plate called the pleuron.
- The name epimeron is sometimes applied to what is here called the pleuron, but the word has been used in widely different senses and it seems better to abandon it.