PARIETAL PLEURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parietal pleura mean? 

• PARIETAL PLEURA (noun)
  The noun PARIETAL PLEURA has 1 sense:

1. pleura that lines the inner chest walls and covers the diaphragm

  Familiarity information: PARIETAL PLEURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIETAL PLEURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleura that lines the inner chest walls and covers the diaphragm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("parietal pleura" is a kind of...):

pleura (the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest)

 Context examples 

The total system of structures outside the lungs that move as a part of breathing; it includes all structures from the skin to the parietal pleura.

(Chest wall, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery to remove a diseased lung, part of the pericardium (membrane covering the heart), part of the diaphragm (muscle between the lungs and the abdomen), and part of the parietal pleura (membrane lining the chest).

(Extrapleural pneumonectomy, NCI Dictionary)