Oblique fissure

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Oblique fissure
#1 - Anterior border of lung #2 - Oblique fissure #3 - Cardiac notch #4 - Lingula of left lung
Mediastinal surface of left lung.
Latin	fissura obliqua pulmonis
Gray's	subject #240 1096
Dorlands/Elsevier	f_08/12365595

In the lung, the oblique fissure (or major fissure) separates the inferior lobe of either lung from the remainder of the lung. (In the right lung, it separates it from the middle and inferior lobe; in the left lung it separates it from the superior lobe, as there is no middle lobe in the left lung.)

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Anatomy of lungs.

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