Pulmonary pleura

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Pulmonary 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. visceralis, p. pulmonalis
Gray's	subject #238 1087
Dorlands/Elsevier	p_24/12646763

Each lung is invested by an exceedingly delicate serous membrane, the pleura, which is arranged in the form of a closed invaginated sac. A portion of the serous membrane covers the surface of the lung and dips into the fissures between its lobes; it is called the pulmonary pleura (or visceral pleura).

The visceral pleura is attached directly to the lungs.

[edit] External links

• GPnotebook 74121277
• Norman/Georgetown thoraxlesson2
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_lymph - "Transverse section through lung"
• Histology at OU 14_15 - "Lung"
• MedEd at Loyola Grossanatomy/thorax0/thor_lec/thor6.html

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