单词 | pleura |
释义 | pleuran. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. The serous membrane lining each half of the thoracic cavity and covering the lung. Occasionally also: the serous membrane enclosing the lungs of vertebrates other than mammals (cf. pleuroperitoneum n.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > [noun] > lungs > membranes of mediastinum?a1425 pleura?a1425 mediastine?c1425 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 15 (MED) In þe brest..is a pannicle which fro withinfourþ couereþ al þe rybbes, which is seid pleura [L. pleura]. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 58 (MED) Þe midreffe..is compounde off þe pleura & of cyfac. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 24 The ribbes..are succinged and clothed with a most sensible Membran called Pleura. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 40 The Heart in this Animal [sc. lamprey] is..cemented and glewed as it were on all sides to the Pleura, or innermost skin of the Thorax. 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 861 The butcher who killd this ox, says, the lungs grew fast to the pleura, on both sides. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 96 The Vibrations excited in the Pleura and Peritonaeum. 1796 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 389 The anterior mediastinum is..free from fat, consisting of nothing besides the duplicature of the pleura. 1824 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 114 258 From the sound of fluctuation in the chest, air was evidently contained in the pleura, yet none escaped with the fluid during the first fortnight. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 453 Malignant disease of the lungs and pleuræ. 1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 83 237 Parietal and visceral pleura adherent right side, due to recent pleurisy. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) vii. 149 Serous membranes may be involved secondarily by extension of inflammation from the viscera which they invest, as happens to the pleura in cases of pneumonia. 1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) iii. 12 Pus..often spreads between the visceral and parietal pleura. 2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 15 June 227/12 Only under the 1995 revision of the Mines Act has cancer of the lungs, stomach and pleura been included under compensable diseases. 2. Zoology and Palaeontology. A lateral part in various invertebrate structures; spec. (a) a pleuron or pleurite of an arthropod, esp. a trilobite; (b) either of the regions on each side of the central tooth of the radula of a mollusc (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > pleura or side pleura1826 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc ungulaa1382 mantlea1475 trunk1661 diaphragm1665 lid1681 operculum1681 ear1688 beard1697 corslet1753 scar1793 opercle1808 pleura1826 pallium1834 byssus1835 cephalic ganglia1835–6 opercule1836 lingual ribbon1839 tube1839 cloak1842 test1842 collar1847 testa1847 rachis1851 uncinus1851 land-shell1853 mantle cavity1853 mesopodium1853 propodium1853 radula1853 malacology1854 gill comb1861 pallial cavity1862 tongue-tootha1877 mesopode1877 odontophore1877 pallial chamber1877 shell-gland1877 rasp1879 protopodium1880 ctenidium1883 osphradium1883 shell-sac1883 tooth-ribbon1883 megalaesthete1885 rachidian1900 scungille1953 tentacle-sheath- the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > thorax > part to which lower wings are attached pleura1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 380 (The Pleuræ). The space behind the scapulars, on which the lower organs of flight are fixed. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 574 Pleura. By this name I would distinguish the part which laterally connects the metathorax and postpectus. It includes in it the socket of the secondary wings. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 28 The teeth on the pleuræ are termed uncini; they are extremely numerous in the plant-eating gasteropods. 1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iii. 50 The lateral areas are called the pleuræ. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) v. 127 Each thoracic or free segment consists of a central arched portion (axis) and a pair of lateral pleurae. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) xi. 356/2 Some, e.g. the olenellids, were prevented from doing more than curl up in a half-sphere because the distal free edges of the pleurae then came in contact. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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