Word Meanings - PLEURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• PLEURENCHYMA
  A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• THORAX
  The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
• PLEURISY
  An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed which is used as a remedy
• PLEURODERES
  A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example.
• PLEURODYNIA
  A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.
• PLEURIC
  Pleural.
• PLEURO-
  A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.
• PLEURAPOPHYSIS
  One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.
• PLEUROPERITONEAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PLEUROPERIPNEUMONY
  Pleuropneumonia.
• PLEUROBRANCHIA
  See PLEUROBRANCH
• PLEUROSTEON
  The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.
• PLEUROPNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.
• PLEUROBRANCH
  Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.
• PLEURA
  pl. of Pleuron.
• PLEUROSIGMA
  A genus of diatoms of elongated elliptical shape, but having the sides slightly curved in the form of a letter S. Pleurosigma angulatum has very fine striations, and is a favorite object for testing the high powers of microscopes.
• PLEURODONT
  Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.
• EPIPLEURAL
  Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• SOMATOPLEURE
  The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.
• CEPHALOTHORAX
  The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
• HAEMATOTHORAX
  See HEMOTHORAX
• SUBPLEURAL
  Situated under the pleural membrane.
• SPLANCHNOPLEURE
  The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric,
• ARTHROPLEURA
  The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.
• ENDOPLEURA
  The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
• IRONSIDES
  A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.