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Hemoothorax :: Hemoothorax (n.) An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

Thoracotomy :: Thoracotomy (n.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

Pleuric :: Pleuric (a.) Pleural.

Neomenoidea :: Neomenoidea (n. pl.) A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura..

Parapleura :: Parapleura (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

Lung-grown :: Lung-grown (a.) Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

Pleuropneumonia :: Pleuropneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle..

Anisopleura :: Anisopleura (n. pl.) A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed..

Endopleura :: Endopleura (n.) The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

Pleurapophysis :: Pleurapophysis (n.) One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib..

Pleuropericardial :: Pleuropericardial (a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Pterobranchia :: Pterobranchia (n. pl.) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura..

Pleurapophyses :: Pleurapophyses (pl. ) of Pleurapophysi.

Pleurae :: Pleurae (pl. ) of Pleur.

Pyopneumothorax :: Pyopneumothorax (n.) Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity..

Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) Same as Pleuron.

Ischium :: Ischium (n.) One of the pleurae of insects.

Pleura :: Pleura (pl. ) of Pleuro.

Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..

Arthropleura :: Arthropleura (n.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

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