pleuro-, pleur-

(Greek: side, rib; a thin membrane with two layers that line the chest cavity)

One lining the outside of the lungs and the other the inside of the chest cavity; fluid between the two layers provides lubrication and so allows smooth, uniform expansion and contraction of the lungs during breathing; pertaining to the side.


pleurography
Radiography of the pleural cavity (space between the visceral pleura and the parietal pleura or membranes) after injecting contrast medium.
pleurohepatitis
pleuron
pleuronectoid
pleuropedal
pleuropericardial
A reference to the pleura (serous membranes covering the lungs) and pericardium (double membranous sac which envelops and protects the heart).
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.
pleuropneumonia
pleurosoma, pleurosomatoschisis
The defective development of the body wall in the thoracic and/or abdominal regions, permitting variable eventration of viscera or the protrusion of abdominal viscera (intestines), particularly the intestines, through an open abdominal wall.

It is usually associated with meromelia (congenital absence of part of an arm or leg) on the same side of the body as the defect.

pleurosomus
pleurostict
pleurotomy
pleurotribe

Cross references of word families that are related, partially or totally, to: "breast, breasts, chest": mammill-; mammo-; masto-; mastoido-; mazo-; pectoro-; sterno-; stetho-; thorac-.