pleurae

Many writers have described this disease as associated with influenza, but it is frequently seen as a separate disease, usually involving only the lungs and pleurae.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Correlated with the presence of the genital pleurae there is a pair of vascular folds of the basement membrane proceeding from the dorsal wall of the gut in the post-branchial portion of the branchio-genital region, and from the dorsal angles made by the pleural folds with the body-wall in the pharyngeal region; they pass, in their most fully developed condition, to the free border of the genital pleurae.

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These folds are called the genital pleurae because they contain the bulk of the gonads.

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Since there are many species which do not possess these genital pleurae, the question arises as to whether their presence or their absence is the more primitive condition.

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Foreign bodies ulcerating through may reach the lung without pleural leakage because of the sealing together of the visceral and parietal pleurae.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

At length, one morning the doctor said she could not last through the day; I had sent for him hurriedly, for the body had suddenly swollen up as a result of the perforation of one of the pleurae, and the consequent escape of air into the cavity of the chest.

An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

Mesothelioma is a cancer of the mesothelial tissue which the New Oxford American Dictionary says is the epithelium that lines the pleurae, peritoneum, and pericardium, and can effect the lungs, chest, and abdomen.

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Parietal pleura  Visceral pleura  Pleural cavity  Potential space between the visceral and parietal pleurae  Pleurae help divide the thoracic cavity  Central mediastinum  Two lateral pleural compartments Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings

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Without attempting to answer this question categorically, it may be pointed out that within the limits of the family (_Ptychoderidae_) which is especially characterized by their presence there are some species in [v. 03 p. 0239] which the genital pleurae are quite obsolete, and yet lateral septa occur (_e. g.

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