Word: pleura

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Related words: pleura

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Synonyms: pleura

eyeglass

Translations: pleura

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german
Translations:
brustfell, rippenfell
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italian
Translations:
pleura
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russian
Translations:
плева, плевра
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czech
Translations:
pohrudnice
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polish
Translations:
opłucna
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ukrainian
Translations:
рясно
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bulgarian
Translations:
плевра
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estonian
Translations:
pleura, rinnakelme
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slovak
Translations:
pohrudnice

The meaning and "use of": pleura

noun
  • each 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.
  • a lateral part in an animal body or structure. - 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.

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