pleura

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This is inflammation of the Pleura of one or both lungs, generally confined to one side.

From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by Hill, B. L. (Benjamin L.)

Each Lung, in a perfect State of Health, touches the Pleura, the Membrane, that lines the Inside of the Breast; though it is not connected to it.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Pleura, the serous membrane that lines the interior of the thorax and invests the lungs.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Next Day an Opening was made in the Thorax, in the Part where the Operation was proposed to have been performed; as soon as the Pleura was cut through, some Quarts of Water rushed out.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

For this Heap of Matter is often accumulated between the Pleura, and the Parts which adhere to it.”

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)