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[ adjective ] of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax

Examples

"pleural muscles"

Used in print

(Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)

The bronchial_artery , except for a small number of short branches in the hilum , contributes none of the pleural blood supply .

As in type 1 , , it provides arterial blood to the interlobular septa , and an extremely rich anastomotic pleural supply is seen ( figs. 9 , 10 ) .

This pleural supply is derived both from hilar and interlobular bronchial_artery branches .

Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at_once .

Some of these were obviously filling from interlobular branches of the bronchial_arteries while others were filling from direct hilar branches following along the pleural surface .

Related terms

pleura

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