pleural membrane

Pleural membranes prevent friction between the lungs and the body wall.

This may be because geophilomorphs have a more heavily sclerotized pleural membrane.

Conversely, if there is fluid between the pleural membranes, the percussion will be dampened and sound muffled.

The sound is described as tympanic if there is a pneumothorax because air will stretch the pleural membranes.

Later in the slaughter procedure, this may necessitate the trimming of blood clots from the pleural membranes after they have been inspected.

It consists of a groove in the right-handed posterior margin of the fifth sclerite, overlying a pleural membrane.

The surgical treatments usually involve pleurodesis (in which the layers of pleura are induced to stick together) or pleurectomy (the surgical removal of pleural membranes).

Flores' research has significantly impacted the surgical management of pleural mesothelioma by demonstrating that partial pleural membrane removal is as effective a treatment as lung removal.

On each side of the cavity, a pleural membrane covers the surface of lung (visceral pleura) and also lines the inside of the chest wall (parietal pleura).

But even as he made his plea, the spinning blade dug deeper and his hand inexorably laid the woman's torso open, splitting her sternum, ripping through the pleural membrane.

When the pleural membranes are punctured, as occurs in penetrating trauma of the chest, air may travel from the lung to the muscles and subcutaneous tissue of the chest wall.

The lungs adhere to the chest wall because of the negative pressure between them and the pleural membranes lining the inside of the chest cavity; thus when the chest widens, they are pulled apart.

Over time, this thickening of the pleural membrane, which lines the lungs, can make breathing difficult and can, in some cases, be accompanied by the development of serious respiratory diseases including mesothelioma and lung cancer.

Breathing lower levels of asbestos may result in changes called plaques in the pleural membranes and can lead to a thickening of the pleural membrane that may restrict breathing.