(n. fem.) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
(n. fem.) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.
(n. fem.) Same as Pleuron.
(pl. ) of Pleuron
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) A wide window setting permits both pleura and lung parenchyma to be examined simultaneously.
(3) Presence or absence of lung cancer and the presence and severity of silicosis of the parenchyma, pleura, and hilar glands were documented from necropsy reports.
(4) CT is superior to conventional radiography in evaluating interstitial pulmonary changes, particularly of the pleura and the lung parenchyma.
(5) On high-resolution CT scans in the normal subjects, a 1-2-mm-thick line of soft-tissue attenuation at the point of contact between lung and chest wall represents the visceral and parietal pleura, pleural contents, endothoracic fascia, and innermost intercostal muscle.
(6) The figures for cancer of the lungs and pleura combined were 17 observed versus 3.7 expected.
(7) The sites of ENM included lung and thoracic lymph nodes (2), pleura and peritoneum (2), and liver (1).
(8) There were 54 patients (83.1%) with massive pleural effusion with or without other pathology, six (9.2%) with tumors, two (3.1%) with organized fibrothorax, two (3.1%) with consolidation or atelectasis and one (1.5%) with pseudocyst of the pleura in the sonographic diagnosis.
(9) Nearly half of the patients with lymphoma had lymphocytosis of the pleural fluid, but neither this finding nor the lymphocytic pleuritis noted on biopsy was diagnostic of lymphomatous involvement of the pleura.
(10) In rabbits with adjuvant induced pleuritis, the visceral pleura, but not the costal pleura, showed mushroom-like projections on the pleural surface which were composed of a fibrin mass mixed with phagocytotic macrophages and covered by proliferative mesothelial cells.
(11) Pneumothorax could be induced if the needle was at an acute angle with the surface of the pleura at the time of puncture.
(12) It is then suggested that this method bloodless drainage may be successfully carried out in cases of accidental lesion of the oesophagus without perforation of parietal pleura, caused by peroral endoscopic manoeuvres or dilatation of oesophageal anatomical and functional strictures.
(13) Decortication, that is excision of both the visceral and parietal pleura, has become a rarely performed operation.
(14) External thoracic endometriosis is associated with implantation of endometrial tissue into lung, pleura, bronchial system, and diaphragm.
(15) Starting with a needle puncture and biopsy, the medical investigation of the pleura has been enriched by thoracoscopy which enables visualisation of not only the parietal and visceral pleura and the lung but also the mediastinum and the pericardium.
(16) At necropsy undifferentiated tumour was found in the pleura, liver, pelvic peritoneum, and transplanted kidney.
(17) The stimulating electrode was inserted around a segment of intrathoracic phrenic nerve isolated with pleura and perineural blood supply.
(18) Among 627 thoracoscopies, lesions induced by exposure to asbestos were found in 9.9% (50 malignant mesotheliomas of the pleura, 10 pleural hyalinoses, 2 asbestos pleurisies).
(19) The presence of in vivo fixation of ANA in the pleura may be of etiologic and diagnostic significance in procainamide-induced SLE syndrome.
(20) In five patients there was either no clear abnormality in the extrapleural space or an insufficient amount of fat to permit detection of an abnormality, or the parietal pleura could not be distinguished from the pleural fluid because intravenous contrast medium was not given.
Pleurisy
Definition:
(n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic examination of the patients with pleurisy of the above etiology promoted elucidation of the exudate nature in 86.7 and 10.4 per cent of the cases, respectively.
(2) For example, in the rat it produces a reduction of the secondary arthritis of Freund's adjuvant polyarthritis and also of the pleurisy due to Bordetella pertussis hypersensitivity.
(3) Forty-eight cases of tuberculous pleurisy were examined and the following results were obtained.
(4) The lesion was secondary to a benign asbestos pleurisy in nine patients and resulted from a slowly increasing pleural fibrosis in 13 patients; in the remaining 39 patients with exposure to asbestos, rounded atelectasis was a sudden finding, with earlier roentgenograms showing only plaques or being normal.
(5) The models used were (1) carrageenin-induced paw oedema in rats previously depleted of polymorphonuclear cells, (2) carrageenin-induced rat pleurisy and (3) migration of rat peritoneal leucocytes from glass capillary tubes in vitro.
(6) From May 1983 to June 1985 the authors performed a thoracoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic objective in 83 patients with chronic recurrent pleurisy; amongst these patients, 69 had know intra or extra thoracic cancer and the other 14 presented with an isolated pleurisy.
(7) In reverse passive Arthus reaction and carrageenan pleurisy models, Sch 40120 was found to suppress both the cellular and fluid components of the acute inflammation.
(8) Drug effects on pleurisy development, as measured by the pleural fluid volume, the number of emigrating leukocytes, and the in vitro oxygen uptake and hydrogen peroxide production of elicited polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) were investigated.
(9) Antiinflammatory activity was studied by means of the carrageenin-induced paw edema and pleurisy in rats.
(10) The infiltration of inflammatory cells, mainly polymorphonuclear leukocytes, into the cavity increased and reached a maximum 6 h after the pleurisy was induced.
(11) Three female members of a family presented with tuberculous pleurisy over a 4-month period.
(12) Among 627 thoracoscopies, lesions induced by exposure to asbestos were found in 9.9% (50 malignant mesotheliomas of the pleura, 10 pleural hyalinoses, 2 asbestos pleurisies).
(13) In the 23 patients, biopsy results were true positive in ten (nine with malignancy, one with tuberculous pleurisy), true negative in ten (confirmed either at subsequent thoracotomy or clinical follow-up), and false negative in three.
(14) In rat carrageenin-induced pleurisy, bradykinin (BK) was hardly able to be detected (< 160 pg per rat) in the exudates.
(15) Rarely BCG-vaccinated children suffered from miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis and pleurisy.
(16) The expression of ras oncogene product p21 in human malignant pleurisy and primary lung cancer was studied immunocyto-histochemically with monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) rp-28 and rp-35 against ras p21.
(17) The effect of in vivo treatment with dexamethasone in rat pleurisy and with polyclonal anti-murine IL-1 beta antibody in mouse peritonitis was also assessed.
(18) However, this pleurisy would have been developed in case it was caused by the past tuberculosis after 43 years.
(19) In one of the observed centers of chicken septicemia infection no pathologic anatomical changes were evident while in the other two centers of infection serofibrinose and serofibrinose vitelline peritonitis, as well as pleurisy were present.
(20) Considered together with other clinical and laboratory indices, these determinations may aid in the differential diagnosis of pleurisy of various etiology.