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rous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.

Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.

Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.

The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. Syd. Soc. Lex.

A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal.

A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

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

Situated under the pleural membrane.

oes; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

lection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. Dunglison.

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

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.…

jesty. Spectator. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and As…

A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.