Pleura is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 125 anagrams from letters in pleura (aelpru).
1655-65; New Latin Greek pleurá (singular) side, rib
The pleura may reach as high as the medial border of the rib.
On the left side was a small abscess, under the pleura costalis.
The diaphragm on its upper surface, highly injected, as was also the pleura lining the thorax.
The pleura and diaphragm also showed a good deal of disease and some adhesion.
On the 19th January, some liquid appeared in the pleura on the same side.
Lunged; Lung′-grown, having an adhesion of the lung to the pleura.
Yet they did not seem to suffer; the pins did not penetrate the pleura or lodge in the processes.
I have occasionally found them free in the cavities of the abdomen and pleura.
The cavity of the chest in which the lungs are suspended is also lined by the pleura.
In short, an abscess in the pericardium must be treated like an abscess in the pleura.
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