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Noun(1) the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest(2) the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest [also: pleurae (pl)]

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(1) The mediastinal pleura is then incised over the length of the esophagus, avoiding injury to any neural or major vascular structures.(2) One patient demonstrated multiple recurrences on the chest wall, with eventual direct extension to the pericardium, pleura , and lung.(3) There were several small distant metastases in the upper lobe of the same lung and in the opposite pleura or subpleural lung parenchyma.(4) It may cause interstitial lung disease by diffusely involving the pleura , interlobular septa, and pulmonary bronchovascular bundles.(5) The rupture involved all layers of the aortic wall, but the mediastinal pleura remained intact.(6) The thoracic pleura of Archizelmiridae, visible in some of the amber fossils, provide additional clues about relationships.(7) The tumor frequently extended to the adjacent lung parenchyma, bronchi, visceral pleura , and mediastinal soft tissues.(8) The mass infiltrated the overlying pleura and adjacent lungs.(9) Explanations for the cytokeratin immunoreactivity include locally entrapped mediastinal pleura or pulmonary epithelium.(10) Manifestations of disease of the lung and of the pleura have become less evident and less characteristic on plain films as exposures have decreased.(11) Encysted effusion may be confused with a mass lesion of the pleura , mediastinum, chest wall and lungs.(12) Metastases were present in the vertebral bodies, spleen, peritoneum, pleura , adrenal glands, visceral and parietal pericardium, and multiple lymph nodes.(13) At the posterior of the body, the pleurae were fused into a flattened tail-like segment, or pygidium.(14) A thoracoscopic lung biopsy and pleural abrasion were performed at an outside hospital.(15) Bilateral pleural and pericardial disease with diffuse infiltrates are possible.(16) Longacre emphasized unequally divided pleurae on the pygidium and the presence of an occipital spine as characters separating Calvinella from other dikelocephalids.