Parietal pleura

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Parietal pleura
A transverse section of the thorax, showing the contents of the middle and the posterior mediastinum. The pleural and pericardial cavities are exaggerated since normally there is no space between parietal and visceral pleura and between pericardium and heart.
Latin	p. parietalis
Gray's	subject #238 1087
Dorlands/Elsevier	p_24/12646791

The portion of the pleura external to the pulmonary pleura lines the inner surface of the chest wall, covers the diaphragm, and is reflected over the structures occupying the middle of the thorax; this portion is termed the parietal pleura.

[edit] Divisions

• Cervical pleura
• Costal pleura
• Mediastinal pleura
• Diaphragmatic pleura

[edit] See also

• Visceral pleura

[edit] External links

• GPnotebook -1288372165
• Norman/Georgetown thoraxlesson2
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_pleura - "X-ray, chest, posteroanterior view"
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_lymph - "Transverse section through lung"
• Loyola
• Diagram at kent.edu

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lungs: right, left, lingula, apex, base, root, cardiac notch, cardiac impression, hilum, borders (anterior, posterior, inferior), surfaces (costal, mediastinal, diaphragmatic), fissures (oblique, horizontal) airway: trachea, carina, bronchi, main bronchus (right, left), lobar/secondary bronchi (eparterial bronchus), segmental/tertiary bronchi (bronchopulmonary segment), bronchiole, alveolar duct, alveolus pleurae: parietal pleura (cervical, costal, mediastinal, diaphragmatic), pulmonary pleura, pulmonary ligament, recesses (costomediastinal, costodiaphragmatic)