Cardiac impression on lung

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Cardiac impression on lung
Mediastinal surface of right lung.
Mediastinal surface of left lung.
Latin	impressio cardiaca pulmonis
Gray's	subject #240 1095
Dorlands/Elsevier	i_04/12446310

The mediastinal surface of the lung presents a deep concavity, the cardiac impression, which accommodates the pericardium; this is larger and deeper on the left lung than on the right lung, on account of the heart projecting farther to the left than to the right side of the median plane.

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