pleura

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To check for them, doctors look at the pleura, the membrane that envelops each lung.

From Scientific American • Jun. 11, 2020

Under normal conditions, viewers see a reflection of the pleura as a series of equidistant horizontal lines, called A lines, throughout those organs.

From Scientific American • Jun. 11, 2020

Since the parietal pleura is attached to the thoracic wall, the natural elasticity of the chest wall opposes the inward pull of the lungs.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The lungs are enclosed by the pleura, a membrane that is composed of visceral and parietal pleural layers.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In puerperal fever round bacteria have been likewise found, though in less quantities, in the lymphatics of the diaphragm and in the fluids of the pleura, the pericardium, and the ventricles of the brain.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various