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pleura
The pleurae (: pleura) are the two flattened pleural sacs filled with pleural fluid that surround each lung, and lines their surrounding tissues. They are formed of two opposing layers of serous membrane that separate the lungs from the mediastinum, the inside surfaces of the surrounding chest walls and the diaphragm. Although wrapped onto itself resulting in a double layer, each lung is surrounded by a single, continuous pleural membrane.
Key facts
- Anatomy.Name
- Pleura
- Anatomy.Latin
- pleurae pulmonarius
- Anatomy.Image
- File:2313 The Lung Pleurea.jpg
- Anatomy.Caption
- Lung detail showing the pleurae. The pleural cavity is exaggerated since normally there is no space between the pulmonary pleurae.
- Anatomy.Nerve
- Intercostal nerves, phrenic nerves, vagus nerve
- Anatomy.System
- Respiratory system
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Research
22,385 papers- Mesenchymal tumours of the pleura: review and update.Histopathology · 2024
- The visceral pleura, lung cancer and lymphatic spread.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2022
- Pathophysiology of the pleura.
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Anatomy
- Visceral pleura
- Parietal pleura
- Neurovascular supply
- Development
- Function
- Clinical significance
- See also
- References
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The pleurae (: pleura) are the two flattened pleural sacs filled with pleural fluid that surround each lung, and lines their surrounding tissues. They are formed of two opposing layers of serous membrane that separate the lungs from the mediastinum, the inside surfaces of the surrounding chest walls and the diaphragm. Although wrapped onto itself resulting in a double layer, each lung is surrounded by a single, continuous pleural membrane.
The pleura that covers the surface of each lung is the visceral pleura. The pleura typically dips between the lobes of the lung as fissures, and is formed by the invagination of lung buds into each thoracic sac during embryonic development. The pleura that lines the chest wall, is the parietal pleura.