Diaphragmatic pleura
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Diaphragmatic pleura | |
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Front view of thorax, showing the relations of the pleuræ and lungs to the chest wall. Pleura in blue; lungs in purple. | |
Latin | p. diaphragmatica |
Gray's | subject #238 1088 |
Dorlands/Elsevier | p_24/12646763 |
Different portions of the parietal pleura have received special names which indicate their position: that clothing the convex surface of the diaphragm is the diaphragmatic pleura.
[edit] External links
- SUNY Figs 19:02-04
- Norman/Georgetown thoraxlesson2
- Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_pleura - "X-ray, chest, posteroanterior view"
- MedEd at Loyola Grossanatomy/thorax0/thor_lec/thor6.html
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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)
conducting zone: trachea, carina, bronchi, main bronchus (right, left), lobar/secondary bronchi (eparterial bronchus), segmental/tertiary bronchi (bronchopulmonary segment), bronchiole, terminal bronchiole
respiratory zone: respiratory bronchiole, alveolar duct, alveolus, alveolar-capillary barrier
pleurae: parietal pleura (cervical, costal, mediastinal, diaphragmatic), pulmonary pleura, pulmonary ligament, recesses (costomediastinal, costodiaphragmatic)