PLEURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pleural mean? 

• PLEURAL (adjective)
  The adjective PLEURAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax

  Familiarity information: PLEURAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

pleural muscles

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by bleeding from the pleural cavity.

(Hemothorax, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A drug used alone or with another drug to treat certain types of non-small cell lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma.

(Alimta, NCI Dictionary)

An individual that has tested positive for pulmonary, laryngeal, or pleural tuberculosis and may or may not present with cavitary disease.

(High-priority Tuberculosis Subject, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of a drug within the pleural cavity.

(Intrapleural Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual that has tested negative for pulmonary, laryngeal, or pleural tuberculosis but has had a non-cavitary chest x-ray that is consistent with tuberculosis.

(Medium-priority Tuberculosis Subject, NCI Thesaurus)

A collapsed lung happens when air enters the pleural space, the area between the lung and the chest wall.

(Collapsed Lung, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A collection of blood in the pleural cavity.

(Hemothorax, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients usually present with chylous pleural effusion.

(Lung Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The continuous cell line K-562 was established by Lozzio and Lozzio from the pleural effusion of a 53-year-old female with chronic myelogenous leukemia in terminal blast crises.

(K-562, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include pleural adenomatoid tumor, chest wall lipoma, mediastinal neurofibroma, and lung hamartoma.

(Benign Thoracic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)