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Visceral pleura

The visceral pleura is deep to the parietal pleura. The visceral is closer to the lungs.

The membrane lining on the lung is the visceral pleura and the membrane lining the inside of the chest cavity is the parietal pleura.

Visceral pleura. The parietal pleura surrounds the outside of the lung. When you are dissecting, the parietal pleura is the layer of lung that you remove. It is difficult to remove the visceral pleura, but not impossible.