Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between the right and left pleuræ or pleural cavities.

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  • Interlobular pressure and interpleural pressure result in the same thing, viz., the permanent retention of the air external to the pulmonary cells, which, in the former case, are collapsed individually; and, in the latter case, in the mass.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The Middle Mediastinum (Fig. 968) is the broadest part of the interpleural space.

    XI. Splanchnology. 1d. The Mediastinum 1918

  • The Superior Mediastinum (Fig. 967) is that portion of the interpleural space which lies between the manubrium sterni in front, and the upper thoracic vertebræ behind.

    XI. Splanchnology. 1d. The Mediastinum 1918

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