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单词 pleura
释义

pleura1

/ˈplʊərə /
noun (plural pleurae /ˈplʊəriː/)
1Each of a pair of serous membranes lining the thorax and enveloping the lungs in humans and other mammals.One patient demonstrated multiple recurrences on the chest wall, with eventual direct extension to the pericardium, pleura, and lung....
  • The tumor frequently extended to the adjacent lung parenchyma, bronchi, visceral pleura, and mediastinal soft tissues.
  • There were several small distant metastases in the upper lobe of the same lung and in the opposite pleura or subpleural lung parenchyma.
2 Zoology A lateral part in an animal body or structure. Compare with pleuron.It possesses several features that place it in the Lophogastrida, such as the presence of well-developed abdominal pleurae, pleopods and pereiopods, a broadly structured telson and a lack of uropodal statocysts....
  • At the posterior of the body, the pleurae were fused into a flattened tail-like segment, or pygidium.
  • Longacre emphasized unequally divided pleurae on the pygidium and the presence of an occipital spine as characters separating Calvinella from other dikelocephalids.

Derivatives

pleural

/ˈplʊərəl/ adjective ...
  • The abscess may track down to the mediastinum to enter into the trachea, oesophagus or the pleural cavity.
  • A thoracoscopic lung biopsy and pleural abrasion were performed at an outside hospital.
  • The pleural and pericardial effusions were fully aspirated.

Origin

Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek, literally 'side of the body, rib'.

pleura2

/ˈplʊərə /
Plural form of pleuron.
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