Pleura is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLEURA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a membrane that covers the lungs
• the side wall of each segment of the body of an arthropod.
• pl. of Pleuron.
• The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
• The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.
• Same as Pleuron.
• the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest
• membrane covering the lungs
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a membrane that envelops the lungs

Words related to PLEURA

pleurae9 pleural9 pleuras9 pleuron9

Words that contain PLEURA

pleurae9 pleural9 pleuras9 endopleura13 endopleuras14 zygopleural26 interpleural14 somatopleural17 pleurapophyses26 pleurapophysis26

How to use PLEURA in a sentence

• They are separated by the diaphragm, and are enveloped by their own covering, called the pleura, and form that part of the body called the chest.
• The pods of this are of a huge size, and the beans, of a fine crimson colour, are used in diseases of the pleura.
• Perforation of the pleura, with the development of pyopneumothorax, is manifested by the usual signs.
• The patient is better off with the foreign body in the lung than if in its removal a mediastinitis, rupture into the pleura, or tearing of a thoracic blood vessel has resulted.
• Should the pleura be perforated by sudden puncture pyo-pneumothorax is inevitable.
• The pleura and wound may be immediately closed without drainage, if the pleura is not infected.

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