Definition of Plera
Pleura, the serous membrane that lines the interior of the thorax
and invests the lungs.
- Wikipedia
||Pleu"ra (?), n.,
pl. of Pleuron.
Pleu"ra, n.; pl. L.
Pleuræ (#), E. Pleuras (#).
[NL., n. fem., fr. Gr. &?; a rib, the side.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The smooth
serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent
surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
(b) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane
about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the
body wall.
2. (Zoöl.) Same as
Pleuron.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (anatomy) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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