Cervical pleura

Cervical pleura
Latin c. pleurae
Gray's subject #238 1088

Different portions of the parietal pleura have received special names which indicate their position: thus, that which rises into the neck, over the summit of the lung, is the cupula of the pleura (cervical pleura).

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