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- English Word Pleura Definition pl. of Pleuron.
- English Word Pleura Definition The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
- English Word Pleura Definition The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.
- English Word Pleura Definition Same as Pleuron.
- English Word Pleura Definition of Pleuron
- English Word Pleurae Definition of Pleura
- English Word Pleural Definition Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax.
- English Word Pleuralgia Definition Pain in the side or region of the ribs.
- English Word Pleurapophyses Definition of Pleurapophysis
- English Word Pleurapophysis Definition 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.
- English Word Pleuras Definition of Pleura
- English Word Pleurenchyma Definition A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.
- English Word Pleuric Definition Pleural.
- English Word Pleurisy Definition An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
- English Word Pleurite Definition Same as Pleuron.
- English Word Pleuritic Definition Alt. of Pleuritical
- English Word Pleuritical Definition Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms.
- English Word Pleuritical Definition Suffering from pleurisy.
- English Word Pleuritis Definition Pleurisy.
- English Word Pleuro- Definition A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.
- English Word Pleurobrachia Definition A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.
- English Word Pleurobranch Definition Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.
- English Word Pleurobranchia Definition Same as Pleurobranch.
- English Word Pleurocarp Definition Any pleurocarpic moss.
- English Word Pleurocarpic Definition Alt. of Pleurocarpous
- English Word Pleurocarpous Definition Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.
- English Word Pleurocentrum Definition One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.
- English Word Pleurodont Definition Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.
- English Word Pleurodont Definition Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.
- English Word Pleurodynia Definition A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.