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"pleural muscles"of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax
Definition that contains pleural
- pneumothorax abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis)
- hemothorax accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest)
- thoracotomy surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity
- celoma a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
- celom a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
- hydrothorax accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) often resulting from disease of the heart or kidneys
- coelom a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
- haemothorax accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest)